{"id":394350,"date":"2017-10-26T13:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/10\/171026135325.htm"},"modified":"2017-10-26T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:53:25","slug":"astronomers-discover-sunscreen-snow-falling-on-hot-exoplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=394350","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover sunscreen snow falling on hot exoplanet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a blistering-hot giant planet outside our solar system where the atmosphere &#8216;snows&#8217; titanium dioxide &#8212; the active ingredient in sunscreen. These observations are the first detections of this &#8216;snow-out&#8217; process, called a &#8216;cold trap,&#8217; on an exoplanet. The research provides insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, and may someday be useful for gauging the habitability of Earth-size planets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a blistering-hot giant planet outside our solar system where the atmosphere &#8216;snows&#8217; titanium dioxide &#8212; the active ingredient in sunscreen. These observations are the first detections of this &#8216;sn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394351,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394350\/revisions\/394351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}