{"id":105285,"date":"2020-04-13T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/astronomers-measure-wind-speed-on-a-brown-dwarf"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:45:25","slug":"astronomers-measure-wind-speed-on-a-brown-dwarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/astronomers-measure-wind-speed-on-a-brown-dwarf","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers measure wind speed on a brown dwarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-measure-wind-speed-on-a-brown-dwarf2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have used the National <i>Science<\/i> Foundation\u2019s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first measurement of wind speed on a brown dwarf\u2014an object intermediate in mass between a planet and a star.<\/p>\n<p>Based on facts known about the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn in our own Solar System, a team of scientists led by Katelyn Allers of Bucknell University realized that they possibly could measure a brown dwarf\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wind\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wind<\/a> speed by combining radio observations from the VLA and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+observations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared observations<\/a> from Spitzer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we realized this, we were surprised that no one else had already done it,\u201d Allers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation\u2019s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first measurement of wind speed on a brown dwarf\u2014an object intermediate in mass between a planet and a star. Based on facts known about the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn in our own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105285","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}