{"id":130197,"date":"2021-11-07T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/jaw-dropping-direct-image-shows-a-baby-exoplanet-over-400-light-years-away"},"modified":"2021-11-07T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T02:23:48","slug":"jaw-dropping-direct-image-shows-a-baby-exoplanet-over-400-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/jaw-dropping-direct-image-shows-a-baby-exoplanet-over-400-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Jaw-Dropping Direct Image Shows a Baby Exoplanet Over 400 Light-Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jaw-dropping-direct-image-shows-a-baby-exoplanet-over-400-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just over 400 light-years away, a baby exoplanet is making its way into the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>This, in itself, is not so unusual. We\u2019ve detected <a href=\"https:\/\/exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu\/\">thousands of exoplanets<\/a> \u2013 planets outside the Solar System. Presumably they all had to be newborn at some point too. What makes this exoplanet special is that astronomers obtained a direct image of it \u2013 an almost vanishingly rare feat.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s named 2M0437b, and it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-have-taken-actual-direct-images-of-a-pair-of-planets-being-born\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the youngest<\/a> exoplanets for which we have ever obtained a direct image. This could give us a new window into the planet formation process, which in turn could help us understand how the Solar System was born and evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over 400 light-years away, a baby exoplanet is making its way into the Universe. This, in itself, is not so unusual. We\u2019ve detected thousands of exoplanets \u2013 planets outside the Solar System. Presumably they all had to be newborn at some point too. What makes this exoplanet special is that astronomers obtained a direct [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130197","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}