{"id":1301,"date":"2008-10-21T07:56:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2008-10-20T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T22:06:39","slug":"how-is-the-weather-up-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"How <EM>is<\/EM> the Weather Up There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the 300 extrasolar planets so far discovered are too distant to discern much about them, but we can infer temperature changes on a few of them by looking at the way their brightness varies.  Some of the weather is officially described as &#8220;weird,&#8221; with unusually high nighttime temperatures suggesting an unknown heat-transport mechanism from one side of the planet to the other.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Arizona think that they may have created a model that explains the unexpected temperature variations, involving super-fast jet streams.<\/p>\n<p>These planets, incidentally, are known as &#8220;Hot Jupiters,&#8221; which strikes me as an excellent name for a porn star.  Because I have the sense of humor of a 12-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/081020-mm-exoplanet-weather.html\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the 300 extrasolar planets so far discovered are too distant to discern much about them, but we can infer temperature changes on a few of them by looking at the way their brightness varies. Some of the weather is officially described as &#8220;weird,&#8221; with unusually high nighttime temperatures suggesting an unknown heat-transport mechanism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}