{"id":3924899,"date":"2026-03-13T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/this-isnt-just-another-rocky-world-orbiting-a-red-dwarf-this-ones-special\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:02:20","slug":"this-isnt-just-another-rocky-world-orbiting-a-red-dwarf-this-ones-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/this-isnt-just-another-rocky-world-orbiting-a-red-dwarf-this-ones-special\/","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t just another rocky world orbiting a red dwarf\u2014this one&#8217;s special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers have found an exoplanet that could serve as a benchmark in future studies. It&#8217;s a rocky planet orbiting an M-type star, and though these planets are plentiful, this one could serve as a benchmark for understanding other M-dwarf exoplanets and their atmospheres. According to the authors of a new study, this new exoplanet could serve as &#8220;a reference system for highly irradiated rocky planets.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-isnt-rocky-world-orbiting-red.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found an exoplanet that could serve as a benchmark in future studies. It&#8217;s a rocky planet orbiting an M-type star, and though these planets are plentiful, this one could serve as a benchmark for understanding other M-dwarf exoplanets and their atmospheres. According to the authors of a new study, this new exoplanet could [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}