{"id":793477,"date":"2025-02-10T08:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793477"},"modified":"2025-02-10T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T13:23:05","slug":"distant-exoplanet-may-be-the-most-volcanic-world-ever-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793477","title":{"rendered":"Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Illustration of the volcanic exoplanet L 98-59 b<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>An alien world with a seemingly sulphur-filled atmosphere may be the most volcanic planet astronomers have ever spotted.<\/p>\n<p>We have never directly detected volcanic activity outside our solar system, in part because current telescopes aren\u2019t powerful enough to take images of exoplanets\u2019 surfaces. We might be able to spot alien volcanoes by measuring the gases they pump into a planet\u2019s atmosphere, but this is also at the very limit of what current telescopes can do \u2013 there have been tantalising hints of atmospheres on rocky\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2467509-distant-exoplanet-may-be-the-most-volcanic-world-ever-found\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration of the volcanic exoplanet L 98-59 b NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center An alien world with a seemingly sulphur-filled atmosphere may be the most volcanic planet astronomers have ever&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793477","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=793477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}