{"id":120370,"date":"2021-03-09T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/a-close-exoplanet-found-that-may-have-an-atmosphere-ideal-for-study"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:22:17","slug":"a-close-exoplanet-found-that-may-have-an-atmosphere-ideal-for-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/a-close-exoplanet-found-that-may-have-an-atmosphere-ideal-for-study","title":{"rendered":"A Close Exoplanet Found That May Have An Atmosphere Ideal For Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-close-exoplanet-found-that-may-have-an-atmosphere-ideal-for-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Different methods of searching for and finding distant exoplanets give different information about the planets found.<\/p>\n<p>The transit method \u2014 where an exoplanets passed in front of its sun and dims the bright sunlight ever so slightly \u2014 gives astronomers not only a detection but also its radius or size.<\/p>\n<p>The radial velocity method \u2014 where an exoplanet\u2019s gravity causes its host star to \u201cwobble\u201d in a way that can be measured \u2014 provides different information about mass and orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different methods of searching for and finding distant exoplanets give different information about the planets found. The transit method \u2014 where an exoplanets passed in front of its sun and dims the bright sunlight ever so slightly \u2014 gives astronomers not only a detection but also its radius or size. The radial velocity method \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120370","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\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}