{"id":102311,"date":"2020-02-13T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/newborn-giant-planet-discovered-330-light-years-away"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:07:33","slug":"newborn-giant-planet-discovered-330-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/newborn-giant-planet-discovered-330-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Newborn giant planet discovered 330 light-years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newborn-giant-planet-discovered-330-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But researchers just located a baby giant exoplanet orbiting a young star just 330 light-years from Earth, making it the closest of its kind to us.<\/p>\n<p>The planet is known as 2MASS 1155\u20137919 b, and it\u2019s located in Epsilon Chamaeleontis Association, a young group of stars seen in our southern sky near the Chameleon constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology made the discovery using data collected by the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia space observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But researchers just located a baby giant exoplanet orbiting a young star just 330 light-years from Earth, making it the closest of its kind to us. The planet is known as 2MASS 1155\u20137919 b, and it\u2019s located in Epsilon Chamaeleontis Association, a young group of stars seen in our southern sky near the Chameleon constellation. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}