{"id":134565,"date":"2022-01-23T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/30-years-ago-astronomers-discovered-the-first-exoplanet-and-its-still-totally-bizarre"},"modified":"2022-01-23T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T23:22:18","slug":"30-years-ago-astronomers-discovered-the-first-exoplanet-and-its-still-totally-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/30-years-ago-astronomers-discovered-the-first-exoplanet-and-its-still-totally-bizarre","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Ago, Astronomers Discovered The First Exoplanet \u2014 And It\u2019s Still Totally Bizarre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/30-years-ago-astronomers-discovered-the-first-exoplanet-and-its-still-totally-bizarre2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It got weird, fast.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And what about Wolszczan\u2019s pulsar detection method? As precise as it is, shouldn\u2019t it have revealed many such pulsar planets by now?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the thing, according to Wolszczan. \u201cI\u2019ve been engaged with a number of long-term surveys, which were to search for millisecond pulsars and then look for planets around them,\u201d he says, and while they\u2019ve found a few objects around neutrons stars, they\u2019ve found nothing like the PSR B1257+12 system. \u201cThat is the disappointing part of the whole story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It remains a mystery why the first confirmed exoplanet appears to be part of a one-of-a-kind system. But then, exoplanet science is still relatively young and full of surprises. Star systems once assumed to be entirely hostile to life may yet prove to provide it a narrow niche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It got weird, fast. And what about Wolszczan\u2019s pulsar detection method? As precise as it is, shouldn\u2019t it have revealed many such pulsar planets by now? That\u2019s the thing, according to Wolszczan. \u201cI\u2019ve been engaged with a number of long-term surveys, which were to search for millisecond pulsars and then look for planets around them,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134565","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}