{"id":33837,"date":"2017-01-26T20:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T04:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/planets-around-wolf-1061-key-to-understanding-venus"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:58:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:58:02","slug":"planets-around-wolf-1061-key-to-understanding-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/planets-around-wolf-1061-key-to-understanding-venus","title":{"rendered":"Planets Around Wolf 1061 Key To Understanding \u2018Venus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planets-around-wolf-1061-key-to-understanding-venus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inner edge of the habitable zone is the dividing line between peaches and cream and all out hell. Venus has likely seen both. The study of exo-solar systems like Wolf 1061 is key to understanding our own Venus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New observations of the nearby star Wolf 1061, some 14 light years distant in Ophiuchus \u2014 already known to harbor three super-earths \u2014 should help planetary scientists better understand what went wrong with our own Venus.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out hellishly-hot Venus-like worlds are quite common and early in the history of any given planetary system, such close-in terrestrial mass planets might even sport liquid water. But as their host stars evolve, the perilous inner edge of these extrasolar planetary systems\u2019 habitable zones move decidedly outward.<\/p>\n<p>As a star\u2019s luminosity grows over time, such tenuous habitable zones can cause what might have been a promising climate to turn into a runaway greenhouse of the sort we see on Venus. With no liquid water at its surface, Venus is the very definition of inhospitable. That\u2019s in contrast to a habitable clime where given the right atmospheric pressure and temperatures terrestrial mass planets can host temperate liquid water on their surfaces.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2017\/01\/26\/planets-around-wolf-1061-key-to-understanding-venus\/#5c8ac12925bb\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2017\/01\/26\/planets...8ac12925bb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inner edge of the habitable zone is the dividing line between peaches and cream and all out hell. Venus has likely seen both. The study of exo-solar systems like Wolf 1061 is key to understanding our own Venus. New observations of the nearby star Wolf 1061, some 14 light years distant in Ophiuchus \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33837","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49264,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33837\/revisions\/49264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}