{"id":148802,"date":"2022-10-24T18:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/student-uses-nasa-data-to-reveal-new-details-on-planets-in-other-solar-systems"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:24:14","slug":"student-uses-nasa-data-to-reveal-new-details-on-planets-in-other-solar-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/student-uses-nasa-data-to-reveal-new-details-on-planets-in-other-solar-systems","title":{"rendered":"Student uses NASA data to reveal new details on planets in other solar systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/student-uses-nasa-data-to-reveal-new-details-on-planets-in-other-solar-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past decades, the number of known exoplanets\u2014planets in other solar systems\u2014has skyrocketed. But we\u2019re still in the dark about a number of details, including how massive they are and what they\u2019re made up of.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Chicago undergraduate, however, was able to tease some clues out of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/data\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data<\/a> that most scientists had overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Siegel, B.S. \u201822, spent six months analyzing data taken by a NASA spacecraft. Some of this data was full of statistical noise, making it hard to differentiate <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/planets\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">planets<\/a> from other phenomena; but Siegel and his advisor, astrophysicist Leslie Rogers, were able to extract useful information about these planets, setting an upper bound on how massive they could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past decades, the number of known exoplanets\u2014planets in other solar systems\u2014has skyrocketed. But we\u2019re still in the dark about a number of details, including how massive they are and what they\u2019re made up of. A University of Chicago undergraduate, however, was able to tease some clues out of data that most scientists had [\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-148802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148802","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=148802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}