{"id":737746,"date":"2022-10-13T08:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737746"},"modified":"2022-10-13T08:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:33:02","slug":"heaviest-element-yet-detected-in-an-exoplanet-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737746","title":{"rendered":"Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT), astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere\u2014barium. They were surprised to discover barium at high altitudes in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b\u2014two exoplanets, planets which orbit stars outside our solar system. This unexpected discovery raises questions about what these exotic atmospheres may be like.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-heaviest-element-exoplanet-atmosphere.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT), astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere\u2014barium. They were surprised to discover barium at high&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737746","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=737746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737746\/revisions"}],"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=737746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}