{"id":157110,"date":"2023-02-05T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/remarkable-footage-shows-planets-circling-a-star-133-light-years-from-earth"},"modified":"2023-02-05T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:26:16","slug":"remarkable-footage-shows-planets-circling-a-star-133-light-years-from-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/remarkable-footage-shows-planets-circling-a-star-133-light-years-from-earth","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable footage shows planets circling a star 133 light-years from Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x9EG3gbQ5P0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After more than a decade of observations, Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang has constructed an amazing time-lapse video of four planets larger than Jupiter as they revolve around their star, giving viewers a one-of-a-kind glimpse into planetary motion.<\/p>\n<p>Wang, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, pointed out that it can be difficult to detect planets in a rotating orbit, which is why this video of planetary motion is so striking.<\/p>\n<p>Objects in our solar system, like Jupiter and Mars, are barely visible since we are in the same system and don\u2019t have a top-down view, <a href=\"https:\/\/ciera.northwestern.edu\/2023\/01\/31\/watch-distant-worlds-dance-around-their-sun\/\">Wang explains in a statement<\/a>. Planetary events occur too promptly or slowly, making it hard to capture video of planetary motion of this caliber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a decade of observations, Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang has constructed an amazing time-lapse video of four planets larger than Jupiter as they revolve around their star, giving viewers a one-of-a-kind glimpse into planetary motion. Wang, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, pointed out that [\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-157110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157110","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=157110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}