{"id":4435,"date":"2019-09-15T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T16:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2019-09-15T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T16:27:17","slug":"water-found-for-first-time-on-potentially-habitable-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/water-found-for-first-time-on-potentially-habitable-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Water found for first time on potentially habitable planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Current Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have for the first time discovered water vapour in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Astronomers at the University College London used data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope to make the discovery. They published<br \/>\ntheir findings in the journal Nature Astronomy.<\/li>\n<li>It is the first time that they have detected water on a planet in the habitable zone around a star where the temperature is<br \/>\npotentially compatible with the presence of life.<\/li>\n<li>K2-18b has an atmosphere and it has water in it, thus making it the only exoplanet known to have both water and temperatures that could support life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Current Affairs Astronomers have for the first time discovered water vapour in the atmosphere of a distant planet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,42],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}