{"id":137708,"date":"2022-04-04T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/the-most-distant-exoplanet-ever-found-by-kepler-is-surprisingly-familiar"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:03:19","slug":"the-most-distant-exoplanet-ever-found-by-kepler-is-surprisingly-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/the-most-distant-exoplanet-ever-found-by-kepler-is-surprisingly-familiar","title":{"rendered":"The Most Distant Exoplanet Ever Found by Kepler Is\u2026 Surprisingly Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-most-distant-exoplanet-ever-found-by-kepler-is-surprisingly-familiar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An exoplanet a whopping 17,000 light-years from Earth has been found hiding in data collected by the now-retired Kepler Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the most distant world ever picked up by the planet-hunting observatory, twice the distance of its previous record. Fascinatingly, the exoplanet is almost an exact twin of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-weirdest-facts-about-jupiter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jupiter\">Jupiter<\/a> \u2013 of similar mass, and orbiting at almost the same distance as Jupiter\u2019s distance from the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Named K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, it represents the first exoplanet confirmed from a 2016 data run that detected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/kepler-seems-to-have-detected-a-population-of-rogue-planets-drifting-through-the-galaxy\">27 possible objects<\/a> using a technique called gravitational microlensing rather than Kepler\u2019s primary detection method. The discovery has been submitted to the <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2203.16959\">available on preprint server arXiv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exoplanet a whopping 17,000 light-years from Earth has been found hiding in data collected by the now-retired Kepler Space Telescope. It\u2019s the most distant world ever picked up by the planet-hunting observatory, twice the distance of its previous record. Fascinatingly, the exoplanet is almost an exact twin of Jupiter \u2013 of similar mass, and [\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-137708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137708","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=137708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}