{"id":3926352,"date":"2026-06-07T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-faster-way-to-forecast-alien-weather\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:00:44","slug":"a-faster-way-to-forecast-alien-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-faster-way-to-forecast-alien-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"A faster way to forecast alien weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The TRAPPIST-1 system, located about 41 light years from Earth, has been a focal point of much exoplanetary discussion\u2014mainly because it has seven confirmed planets orbiting a dim M-dwarf star. Two of those planets\u2014TRAPPIST-1e and -1f\u2014are thought to be in the star&#8217;s habitable zone. However, the habitable zone of M-dwarfs is so close to the star itself, the planets are likely tidally locked to it, meaning they have a permanent day and night side, with a &#8220;twilight terminator&#8221; in between.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-faster-alien-weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TRAPPIST-1 system, located about 41 light years from Earth, has been a focal point of much exoplanetary discussion\u2014mainly because it has seven confirmed planets orbiting a dim M-dwarf star. Two of those planets\u2014TRAPPIST-1e and -1f\u2014are thought to be in the star&#8217;s habitable zone. However, the habitable zone of M-dwarfs is so close to the [&#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-3926352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}