{"id":102602,"date":"2020-02-21T05:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/jupiter-like-exoplanet-orbits-its-star-in-only-18-hours"},"modified":"2020-02-21T05:22:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:22:36","slug":"jupiter-like-exoplanet-orbits-its-star-in-only-18-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/jupiter-like-exoplanet-orbits-its-star-in-only-18-hours","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits its star in only 18 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jupiter-like-exoplanet-orbits-its-star-in-only-18-hours.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours \u2013 the shortest orbital period ever seen for a planet of its type.<\/p>\n<p>This means that a single year for this hot Jupiter-like planet \u2013 a gas giant similar in size and composition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/tag\/jupiter\/\">Jupiter<\/a> in our own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/tag\/the-solar-system\/\">Solar System<\/a> \u2013 passes in less than a day of Earth time.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe the discovery may help solve the mystery of whether such planets are in the process of spiralling towards their suns to their destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours \u2013 the shortest orbital period ever seen for a planet of its type. This means that a single year for this hot Jupiter-like planet \u2013 a gas giant similar in size and composition to Jupiter in our own Solar System \u2013 passes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102602","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}