{"id":630446,"date":"2019-09-12T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630446"},"modified":"2019-09-12T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T09:29:00","slug":"hubble-finds-water-vapor-on-habitable-zone-exoplanet-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630446","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Finds Water Vapor on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Hubble_Finds_Water_Vapor_on_Habitable-Zone_Exoplanet_for_the_First_Time_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis artist\u2019s impression shows the planet K2-18b, it\u2019s host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is now the only super-Earth exoplanet known to host both water and temperatures that could support life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith data from the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a super-Earth within the habitable zone by University College London (UCL) researchers in a world first. K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the Solar System, or exoplanet, known to have both water and temperatures that could support life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/news\/heic1916\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2019\/09\/Hubble_Finds_Water_Vapor_on_Habitable-Zone_Exoplanet_for_the_First_Time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hubble Finds Water Vapor on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet for the First Time<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This artist\u2019s impression shows the planet K2-18b, it\u2019s host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is now the only super-Earth exoplanet known to host both water and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630447,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630446","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/630447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}