{"id":229788,"date":"2026-01-25T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/hot-black-ice-might-be-responsible-for-neptunes-wild-magnetism"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:07:19","slug":"hot-black-ice-might-be-responsible-for-neptunes-wild-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/hot-black-ice-might-be-responsible-for-neptunes-wild-magnetism","title":{"rendered":"Hot, Black Ice Might Be Responsible For Neptune\u2019s Wild Magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hot-black-ice-might-be-responsible-for-neptunes-wild-magnetism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions into a phase completely unfamiliar under natural conditions on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u2018superionic water\u2019, this form of water is a type of ice. However, unlike regular ice, it\u2019s actually hot, and also black.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists thought that the superionic water in the core of Neptune and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-uranus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Uranus<\/a> was responsible for the wild, unaligned magnetic fields that the Voyager 2 spacecraft saw when passing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions into a phase completely unfamiliar under natural conditions on Earth. Known as \u2018superionic water\u2019, this form of water is a type of ice. However, unlike regular ice, it\u2019s actually hot, and also black. For decades, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229788","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}