{"id":204431,"date":"2025-01-24T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-kind-of-planet-unlike-anything-in-our-solar-system-discovered"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:28:57","slug":"new-kind-of-planet-unlike-anything-in-our-solar-system-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-kind-of-planet-unlike-anything-in-our-solar-system-discovered","title":{"rendered":"New Kind of Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-kind-of-planet-unlike-anything-in-our-solar-system-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>The exoplanet <a href=\"https:\/\/nameexoworlds.iau.org\/2022approved-names?pgid=lieirelz-879efd7c-8e56-469b-bfba-d57e93706d90\">Enaiposha<\/a>, or GJ 1,214 b, is a hazy world orbiting a red dwarf star about 47 light-years from Earth. Previously likened to a mini-Neptune, in-depth observations obtained using JWST now suggest the exoplanet is more like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/venus\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Venus<\/a> \u2013 only much larger.<\/p>\n<p>This would make it the first known of its kind, a category astronomers are calling \u2018Super-Venus\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we\u2019ve never seen before. The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1,214 b, is a hazy world orbiting a red dwarf star about 47 light-years from Earth. Previously likened to a mini-Neptune, in-depth observations obtained using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}