{"id":23275,"date":"2024-05-11T05:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T00:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23275"},"modified":"2025-04-07T01:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:55:42","slug":"55-cancri-e-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/55-cancri-e-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"55 Cancri e Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About 55 Cancri e Planet:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an exoplanet also known as <strong>Janssen<\/strong> and is a super-Earth.<\/li>\n<li>The planet is <strong>located in our Milky Way galaxy<\/strong> about 41 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cancer.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>rocky planet<\/strong> significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.<\/li>\n<li>It orbits perilously close to a star dimmer and slightly less massive than our sun, rapidly completing an orbit every 18 hours or so.<\/li>\n<li>It is about 8.8 times more <strong>massive than Earth<\/strong>, with a diameter about twice that of our planet.<\/li>\n<li>It orbits its star at one-25th the distance between our solar system&#8217;s innermost planet Mercury and the sun. As a result, its surface temperature is about 3,140 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/li>\n<li>The planet is <strong>probably tidally locked<\/strong>, meaning it perpetually has the same side facing its star, much like the moon does toward Earth. Four other planets, all gas giants, are known to orbit its host star.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Exoplanets?<\/h3>\n<p>These are planets that orbit other stars and are beyond our solar system. Exoplanets come in a host of different sizes. They can be gas giants bigger than Jupiter or as small and rocky as Earth. They are also known to have different kinds of temperatures; boiling to cold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/astronomers-finally-detect-a-rocky-planet-with-an-atmosphere\/article68160507.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>55 Cancri e Planet is an exoplanet also known as Janssen and is a super-Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}