{"id":117292,"date":"2020-12-17T21:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/chuck-yeager-the-first-man-to-break-the-sound-barrier-has-died-he-was-97"},"modified":"2020-12-17T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:23:05","slug":"chuck-yeager-the-first-man-to-break-the-sound-barrier-has-died-he-was-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/chuck-yeager-the-first-man-to-break-the-sound-barrier-has-died-he-was-97","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Yeager, the First Man to Break the Sound Barrier has Died. He was 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chuck-yeager-the-first-man-to-break-the-sound-barrier-has-died-he-was-97.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers may have found a \u201cPlanet Nine,\u201d but in another solar system. Will we eventually find the hypothetical Planet Nine in our own Solar System?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Even with all we\u2019ve learned about our own Solar System, especially in the last couple of decades, researchers still face many unanswered questions. One of those questions regards the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/hypothetical-planet-x\/in-depth\/\">Planet Nine<\/a>. The Planet Nine hypothesis states that there\u2019s a massive planet in our Solar System orbiting at a great distance from the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody\u2019s ever observed the hypothesized planet; the evidence for it lies in a cluster of bodies that orbit the Sun 250 times further out than Earth does. These objects are called e-TNOs, for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extreme_trans-Neptunian_object\">extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects<\/a>. According to the hypothesis, Planet Nine\u2019s gravity is responsible for the unusual clustered orbits of these e-TNOs.<\/p>\n<p>Now astronomers have found a distant solar system with its own Planet Nine, and that discovery is breathing new life into the hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers may have found a \u201cPlanet Nine,\u201d but in another solar system. Will we eventually find the hypothetical Planet Nine in our own Solar System? Even with all we\u2019ve learned about our own Solar System, especially in the last couple of decades, researchers still face many unanswered questions. One of those questions regards the so-called [\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-117292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117292","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=117292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}