{"id":5282,"date":"2010-12-20T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T09:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/20\/science-on-the-tree-2010-extra\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T09:41:32","slug":"science-on-the-tree-2010-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/20\/science-on-the-tree-2010-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"Science on the Tree 2010: Extrasolar Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t do a Christmas tree last year, because we figured SteelyKid wasn&#8217;t yet old enough to be safe around it. We put one up this year, though, and she&#8217;s been very grown-up and careful around it, so all is well.<\/p>\n<p>The return of the Chateau Steelypips Christmas tree means I can also revive a sort-of tradition here, namely the posting of pictures of ornaments with explanations of how they&#8217;re really about SCIENCE! (say that last word a la thomas Dolby for the full effect). We&#8217;ll start with an easy one:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-c52787a055833ace9c6079239811db54-sm_planet.jpg\" alt=\"i-c52787a055833ace9c6079239811db54-sm_planet.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a shiny green ball with a big ring around it. As this clearly isn&#8217;t one of the planets we have in our solar system, it must represent extrasolar planets, which now number in the hundreds. And you can even see a sort of a swirl on the ball, which represents the atmosphere of the planet, a very timely addition, as this year saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/41396\">spectroscopic observation of an exoplanet&#8217;s atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s to astronomy, and the discovery of worlds beyond our Solar System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t do a Christmas tree last year, because we figured SteelyKid wasn&#8217;t yet old enough to be safe around it. We put one up this year, though, and she&#8217;s been very grown-up and careful around it, so all is well. The return of the Chateau Steelypips Christmas tree means I can also revive a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/20\/science-on-the-tree-2010-extra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science on the Tree 2010: Extrasolar Planets<\/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":[10,50,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-pictures","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","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=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}