{"id":91401,"date":"2019-05-29T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/astronomers-find-distant-forbidden-planet-in-neptunian-desert"},"modified":"2019-05-29T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:42:41","slug":"astronomers-find-distant-forbidden-planet-in-neptunian-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/astronomers-find-distant-forbidden-planet-in-neptunian-desert","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Find Distant \u201cForbidden Planet\u201d In \u201cNeptunian Desert\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-distant-forbidden-planet-in-neptunian-desert.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And more Earth-like planets could be found hiding in nearby star systems.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An international team of astronomers says it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/05\/190528193034.htm\">discovered a rogue exoplanet<\/a> three times the size of Earth \u2014 in an orbit that was thought to be impossible, meaning more Earth-like planets could be found hiding in nearby star systems.<\/p>\n<p>No exoplanets with gas atmospheres were previously thought be able to orbit this close to a star \u2014 a region known as the \u201cNeptunian Desert\u201d \u2014 as the gas would evaporate and leave just a rocky core. Until, that is, this team located NGTS-4b, which they\u2019re calling a \u201cforbidden planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Air Gap<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The astronomers believe NGTS-4b could\u2019ve either just moved into position in the last million years, or that its atmosphere could be in the process of evaporating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/astronomers-forbidden-planet-neptunian-desert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And more Earth-like planets could be found hiding in nearby star systems. An international team of astronomers says it\u2019s discovered a rogue exoplanet three times the size of Earth \u2014 in an orbit that was thought to be impossible, meaning more Earth-like planets could be found hiding in nearby star systems. No exoplanets with gas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91401","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}