{"id":245179,"date":"2026-10-10T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/discovery-marks-the-first-detection-of-variable-water-clouds-outside-of-the-solar-system"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:24:09","slug":"discovery-marks-the-first-detection-of-variable-water-clouds-outside-of-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/discovery-marks-the-first-detection-of-variable-water-clouds-outside-of-the-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of the solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-marks-the-first-detection-of-variable-water-clouds-outside-of-the-solar-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, Brittany Miles, assistant astronomer at the University of Arizona\u2019s Steward Observatory, led a team that spent 11 hours staring at WISE 0855, the coldest known brown dwarf, collecting a spectrum of its light every 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, Brittany Miles, assistant astronomer at the University of Arizona\u2019s Steward Observatory, led a team that spent 11 hours staring at WISE 0855, the coldest known brown dwarf, collecting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245179","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=245179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}