{"id":155879,"date":"2023-01-20T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/esas-gaia-finds-exoplanet-with-nuclear-fusion-reaction-at-its-core"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:26:17","slug":"esas-gaia-finds-exoplanet-with-nuclear-fusion-reaction-at-its-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/esas-gaia-finds-exoplanet-with-nuclear-fusion-reaction-at-its-core","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s Gaia finds exoplanet with nuclear fusion reaction at its core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/esas-gaia-finds-exoplanet-with-nuclear-fusion-reaction-at-its-core2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This \u201cmay be the first direct detection of a \u2018Gaia exoplanet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA\u2019s) Gaia spacecraft helped capture an exoplanet, paving the way for follow-up observations that revealed the distant planet had a nuclear fusion reaction in its core.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe discovery of HD 206,893 c is a really important moment for the study of exoplanets, as ours may be the first direct detection of a \u2018Gaia exoplanet,\u2019\u201d Professor Sasha Hinkley at the University of Exeter in England explained in a press statement.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ESA \/ ATG<\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists analyzed the new data to find that the exoplanet, HD 206,893 c, was brightening, suggesting it was burning deuterium for fusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201cmay be the first direct detection of a \u2018Gaia exoplanet.\u2019\u201d The European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA\u2019s) Gaia spacecraft helped capture an exoplanet, paving the way for follow-up observations that revealed the distant planet had a nuclear fusion reaction in its core. \u201cThe discovery of HD 206,893 c is a really important moment for the study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155879","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}