{"id":221244,"date":"2025-08-31T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-study-counters-idea-that-jupiters-mysterious-core-was-formed-by-a-giant-impact"},"modified":"2025-08-31T15:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:10:46","slug":"new-study-counters-idea-that-jupiters-mysterious-core-was-formed-by-a-giant-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/new-study-counters-idea-that-jupiters-mysterious-core-was-formed-by-a-giant-impact","title":{"rendered":"New study counters idea that Jupiter\u2019s mysterious core was formed by a giant impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-counters-idea-that-jupiters-mysterious-core-was-formed-by-a-giant-impact2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Durham University study has found that a giant impact may not be responsible for the formation of Jupiter\u2019s remarkable \u201cdilute\u201d core, challenging a theory about the planet\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has a mystery at its heart. Unlike what scientists once expected, its core doesn\u2019t have a sharp boundary but instead gradually blends into the surrounding layers of mostly hydrogen (a structure known as a dilute core).<\/p>\n<p>How this dilute core formed has been a key question among scientists and astronomers ever since NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft first revealed its existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Durham University study has found that a giant impact may not be responsible for the formation of Jupiter\u2019s remarkable \u201cdilute\u201d core, challenging a theory about the planet\u2019s history. Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has a mystery at its heart. Unlike what scientists once expected, its core doesn\u2019t have a sharp [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221244","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}