{"id":10166,"date":"2019-09-18T17:06:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T00:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2019-09-29T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:09:41","slug":"water-water-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/18\/water-water-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, water, everywhere."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/strange-alien-world-found-have-water-vapor-possibly-rain-clouds-ncna1052486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from NBC News (opens in a new tab)\">from NBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strange alien world found to have water vapor and possibly rain clouds<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Exoplanet K2-18 b lies in the habitable zone of its host star some 110 light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Chelsea Gohd, Space.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2019_37\/3006181\/190911-k2-18b-ew-158p_28b5714f5bdf31971b61ed2dd9891df2.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"This artist's impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system.\"\/><figcaption>This artist&#8217;s impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. M. Kornmesser \/ ESA\/Hubble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a major first, scientists have detected water vapor and possibly even liquid water clouds that rain in the atmosphere of a strange\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17738-exoplanets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">exoplanet<\/a>\u00a0that lies in the habitable zone of its host star about 110 light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study focuses on K2-18 b,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/39010-super-earth-alien-planet-maybe-rocky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">an exoplanet discovered in 2015<\/a>, orbits a red dwarf star close enough to receive about the same amount of radiation from its star as Earth does from our sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, scientists have discovered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/27251-water-found-neptune-size-exoplanet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">gas giants that have water vapor in their atmospheres<\/a>, but this is the least massive planet ever to have water vapor detected in its atmosphere. This new paper even goes so far as to suggest that the planet hosts clouds that rain liquid water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The water vapor detection was quite clear to us relatively early on,&#8221; lead author Bj\u00f6rn Benneke, a professor at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, told Space.com in an interview. So he and his colleagues developed new analysis techniques to provide evidence that clouds made up of liquid water droplets likely exist on K2-18 b. &#8220;That&#8217;s in some ways the &#8216;holy grail&#8217; of studying extrasolar planets \u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/30439-alien-oceans-habitable-exoplanets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">evidence of liquid water<\/a>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/strange-alien-world-found-have-water-vapor-possibly-rain-clouds-ncna1052486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to  continue reading at NBC News (opens in a new tab)\">click to  continue reading at NBC News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NBC News Strange alien world found to have water vapor and possibly rain clouds Exoplanet K2-18 b lies in the habitable zone of its host star some 110 light-years from Earth. By\u00a0Chelsea Gohd, Space.com In a major first, scientists have detected water vapor and possibly even liquid water clouds that rain in the atmosphere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}