{"id":117035,"date":"2020-12-12T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T19:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/hubble-discovers-a-strange-exoplanet-that-resembles-the-long-sought-planet-nine"},"modified":"2020-12-12T22:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T06:01:35","slug":"hubble-discovers-a-strange-exoplanet-that-resembles-the-long-sought-planet-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/hubble-discovers-a-strange-exoplanet-that-resembles-the-long-sought-planet-nine","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Discovers a Strange Exoplanet That Resembles the Long-Sought \u201cPlanet Nine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-discovers-a-strange-exoplanet-that-resembles-the-long-sought-planet-nine.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our Solar System dubbed \u201cPlanet Nine.\u201d This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disc.<\/p>\n<p>The exoplanet HD106906 b was discovered in 2013 with the Magellan Telescopes at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. However, astronomers did not then know anything about the planet\u2019s orbit. This required something only the Hubble Space Telescope could do: collect very accurate measurements of the vagabond\u2019s motion over 14 years with extraordinary precision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our Solar System dubbed \u201cPlanet Nine.\u201d This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure [\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-117035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117035","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=117035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117063,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117035\/revisions\/117063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}