{"id":107340,"date":"2020-05-20T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/stunning-images-appear-to-show-a-planet-being-born"},"modified":"2020-05-20T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:23:38","slug":"stunning-images-appear-to-show-a-planet-being-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/stunning-images-appear-to-show-a-planet-being-born","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Images Appear to Show a Planet Being Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stunning-images-appear-to-show-a-planet-being-born.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scientists believe the twist at the center of the image marks the spot where the baby planet could be forming.<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago, scientists managed to take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160929145329.htm\">images of spiral arms<\/a> of gas surrounding a star that scientists believe were early evidence of planet formation \u2014 but the \u201ctwist\u201d at the center adds something new to the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe twist is expected from some theoretical models of planet formation, \u201d Anne Dutrey, another co-author from the LAB, said in the statement. \u201d It corresponds to the connection of two spirals \u2014 one winding inwards of the planet\u2019s orbit, the other expanding outwards \u2014 which join at the planet location.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientists believe the twist at the center of the image marks the spot where the baby planet could be forming. A couple years ago, scientists managed to take images of spiral arms of gas surrounding a star that scientists believe were early evidence of planet formation \u2014 but the \u201ctwist\u201d at the center adds [\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-107340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107340","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=107340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}