{"667016":{"#nid":"667016","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Scientists examine climate of exoplanets, inspired by Milankovitch cycle","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists believe the Milankovitch cycles have influenced Earth\u0027s climate for millions of years, causing climate shifts such as ice ages and warmer periods. These cycles are the periodic variations that influence a planet\u0027s orbital properties. This, in turn, controls how much sunlight the planet receives over time and thus plays an important role in determining the planet\u0027s climate and habitability.\u0026nbsp;A new study, inspired by Milankovitch cycles, has attempted to investigate how orbital changes may affect the climate of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/nasas-massive-exoplanet-13-jupiters\u0022 rel=\u0022dofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022exoplanets\u0022\u003Eexoplanets\u003C\/a\u003E. They investigated orbit variations in compact multiplanet systems for this purpose. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/gongjie-li\u0022\u003EGongjie Li\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, was a co-author of the study.\u0026nbsp;(This story was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-paper-exoplanet-climates.html\u0022\u003EPhys.org.\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists believe the Milankovitch cycles have influenced Earth\u0027s climate for millions of years, causing climate shifts such as ice ages and warmer periods. These cycles are the periodic variations that influence a planet\u0027s orbital properties. This, in turn, controls how much sunlight the planet receives over time and thus plays an important role in determining the planet\u0027s climate and habitability.\u0026nbsp;A new study, inspired by Milankovitch cycles, has attempted to investigate how orbital changes may affect the climate of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/nasas-massive-exoplanet-13-jupiters\u0022 rel=\u0022dofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022exoplanets\u0022\u003Eexoplanets\u003C\/a\u003E. They investigated orbit variations in compact multiplanet systems for this purpose. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/gongjie-li\u0022\u003EGongjie Li\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, was a co-author of the study. (This story was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-paper-exoplanet-climates.html\u0022\u003EPhys.org.\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-04-03 13:40:38","changed_gmt":"2023-04-03 15:54:55","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Interesting Engineering ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/scientists-examine-climate-of-exoplanets-inspired-by-milankovitch-cycle","dateline":{"date":"2023-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"177416","name":"Gongjie Li"},{"id":"184198","name":"Trappist exoplanets"},{"id":"2262","name":"climate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}