Scientists say they have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet for the first time.<\/p>\n
They have studied a world known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times the size of our planet and lies 39 light years away.<\/p>\n
Their observations suggest that the “super-Earth” is cloaked in a thick layer of gasses that are either water or methane or a mixture of both.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-39521344<\/a><\/p>\n Discovering an atmosphere, and characterising it, is an important step forward in the hunt for life beyond our Solar System.<\/p>\n But it is highly unlikely that this world is habitable: it has a surface temperature of 370C.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n Not to be picky but if aliens are just like Earthmen they\u00a0wouldn’t be aliens would they? What if a gaseous fuzzy hot cloud happens to think? Would it be any stranger than, say, meaty floppy things doing the same? I personally like taking\u00a0370C showers.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n The study is published in the Astronomical Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-3881\/aa6477\/meta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scientists say they have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet for the first time. They have studied a world known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times the size of our planet and lies 39 light years away. Their observations suggest that the “super-Earth” is cloaked in a thick layer of gasses that are either water or methane or a… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-not-sci-fi","category-space","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Detection of the Atmosphere of the 1.6\u00a0M<\/i> \u2295<\/sub> Exoplanet GJ 1132 b<\/h1>\n