{"id":217091,"date":"2025-07-03T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/clingy-planets-can-trigger-their-own-doom-cheops-and-tess-suggest"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:22:41","slug":"clingy-planets-can-trigger-their-own-doom-cheops-and-tess-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/clingy-planets-can-trigger-their-own-doom-cheops-and-tess-suggest","title":{"rendered":"Clingy planets can trigger their own doom, Cheops and TESS suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clingy-planets-can-trigger-their-own-doom-cheops-and-tess-suggest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers using the European Space Agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cheops\" target=\"_blank\">Cheops<\/a> mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet\u2019s wispy atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first-ever evidence of a \u201cplanet with a death wish.\u201d Though it was theorized to be possible since the nineties, the flares seen in this research are around 100 times more energetic than expected.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09236-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the European Space Agency\u2019s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet\u2019s wispy atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year. This is the first-ever evidence of a \u201cplanet with a death wish.\u201d Though it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217091","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}