{"id":765314,"date":"2023-09-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765314"},"modified":"2023-09-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T14:00:00","slug":"webb-discovers-methane-and-carbon-dioxide-in-atmosphere-of-k2-18-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765314","title":{"rendered":"Webb discovers methane and carbon dioxide in atmosphere of K2-18 b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Exoplanet K2-18 b (Illustration)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new investigation by an international team of astronomers using data from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide. The discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that K2-18 b could be a Hycean exoplanet, one which has the potential to possess a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a water ocean-covered surface.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/Webb_discovers_methane_and_carbon_dioxide_in_atmosphere_of_K2-18_b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Webb discovers methane and carbon dioxide in atmosphere of K2-18 b<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new investigation by an international team of astronomers using data from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765314","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=765314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765314\/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=765314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}