{"id":85480,"date":"2020-03-18T14:49:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:19:40","slug":"wasp-76b-iron-rain-on-exoplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wasp-76b-iron-rain-on-exoplanet\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasp 76b &#8211; Iron rain on exoplanet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,Astronomers have observed an exoplanet (planet which orbits a star outside the solar system) named Wasp-76b where they suspect it rains iron instead of water.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Wasp-76b:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wasp-76b is an exoplanet that is twice the width of our Jupiter.Its name comes from the UK-led Wasp telescope system that detected it four years ago.<\/li><li>It is 640 light-years from the Earth and is so close to its star that it takes just 43 hours to complete one revolution.<\/li><li>According to researchers, the iron rain happens because the exoplanet always presents the same face to the star which is called as tidally locked.Earth&#8217;s Moon also does exactly the same thing as we only ever see one side.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,Astronomers have observed an exoplanet (planet which orbits a star outside the solar system) named Wasp-76b where they suspect it rains iron instead of water. Facts: About Wasp-76b: Wasp-76b is an exoplanet that is twice the width of our Jupiter.Its name comes from the UK-led Wasp telescope system that detected it four years ago. It&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wasp-76b-iron-rain-on-exoplanet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wasp 76b &#8211; Iron rain on exoplanet<\/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":[2361,2835,2836],"class_list":["post-85480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-exoplanet","tag-iron-rain","tag-wasp-76b","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913619},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85480","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=85480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}