{"id":85335,"date":"2019-09-13T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10097"},"modified":"2019-09-13T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:00:13","slug":"water-found-for-first-time-on-potentially-habitable-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/water-found-for-first-time-on-potentially-habitable-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Water found for first time on potentially habitable planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> data from\nthe Hubble Space Telescope have revealed water vapour in the atmosphere of an\nexoplanet called K2-18b. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About K2-18b<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an exoplanet eight times the mass of Earth.\n<\/li><li>The planet orbits dwarf star K2-18. K2-18 is located\nabout 110 light years from Earth in the Leo constellation in Milky Way.<\/li><li>The planet was first discovered in 2015 by\nNASA&#8217;s Kepler space telescope.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exoplanets<\/strong>: planets\noutside the solar system are called exoplanets. The first exoplanet was\ndiscovered in 1992, orbiting a pulsar (a neutron star that emits\nelectromagnetic radiation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dwarf star:<\/strong> A\ndwarf star is a star of relatively small size and low luminosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hubble Space Telescope: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is world\u2019s first space-based optical telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990. It still remains operational.<\/li><li>It has been named after astronomer Edwin Hubble.<\/li><li>It is one of NASA\u2019s Great Observatories. NASA\u2019s series of Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes. The telescopes other than Hubble include the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kepler Space\nTelescope<\/strong>: It was an observatory in space launched by NASA to discover\nEarth-size planets orbiting other stars. It was launched in 2009 and decommissioned\nin 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: data from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed water vapour in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18b. Facts: About K2-18b It is an exoplanet eight times the mass of Earth. The planet orbits dwarf star K2-18. K2-18 is located about 110 light years from Earth in the Leo constellation in Milky Way. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/water-found-for-first-time-on-potentially-habitable-planet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Water found for first time on potentially habitable planet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2653],"class_list":["post-85335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-k2-18b","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}