{"id":245282,"date":"2026-10-13T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-decode-the-unusual-weather-of-a-planet-20-light-years-from-earth"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:22:08","slug":"scientists-decode-the-unusual-weather-of-a-planet-20-light-years-from-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-decode-the-unusual-weather-of-a-planet-20-light-years-from-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Decode the Unusual Weather of a Planet 20 Light-Years From Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-decode-the-unusual-weather-of-a-planet-20-light-years-from-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>JWST observations reveal that the changing atmosphere of brown dwarf SIMP 136 may be governed by just a few underlying processes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A world 20 light-years from Earth appears to have a much more orderly atmosphere than its constantly changing clouds suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Using observations from NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/james-webb-space-telescope\/\">James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)<\/a>, scientists at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/trinity-college-dublin\/\">Trinity College Dublin<\/a> found that most of the atmospheric variability on the brown dwarf SIMP 136 can be traced to just two dominant processes: changes in temperature and changes in the vertical structure of its clouds. Those processes appear to combine into three recurring weather states that rotate in and out of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JWST observations reveal that the changing atmosphere of brown dwarf SIMP 136 may be governed by just a few underlying processes. A world 20 light-years from Earth appears to have a much more orderly atmosphere than its constantly changing clouds suggest. Using observations from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists at Trinity College Dublin [\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-245282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245282","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=245282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}