{"id":2938,"date":"2008-09-16T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T09:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/16\/pictures-of-distant-worlds\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T09:04:59","slug":"pictures-of-distant-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/16\/pictures-of-distant-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of Distant Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s all abuzz about this picture:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-aae7b70f6ddd7beaec78571b316471f9-exoplanet_sunlikestar.jpg\" alt=\"i-aae7b70f6ddd7beaec78571b316471f9-exoplanet_sunlikestar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This may be the first image of a planet around a sun-like star. May be, mind&#8211; it looks likely, but there are still a lot of caveats. If it is a planet, and not a dim background star, it&#8217;s got about eight times the mass of Jupiter, and is orbiting at eleven times the radius of Neptune&#8217;s orbit. Those are a little hard to explain.<\/p>\n<p>Still, isn&#8217;t it cool to be living in the future?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2008\/09\/15\/planet-imaged-around-a-sunlike-star\/\">Phil Plait has all the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s all abuzz about this picture: This may be the first image of a planet around a sun-like star. May be, mind&#8211; it looks likely, but there are still a lot of caveats. If it is a planet, and not a dim background star, it&#8217;s got about eight times the mass of Jupiter, and is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/16\/pictures-of-distant-worlds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pictures of Distant Worlds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-in_the_news","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}