{"id":15813,"date":"2015-07-30T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T01:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/astronomers-find-star-with-three-super-earths"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:59","slug":"astronomers-find-star-with-three-super-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/astronomers-find-star-with-three-super-earths","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find star with three super-Earths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-star-with-three-super-earths.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers said Thursday they had found a planetary system with three super-Earths orbiting a bright, dwarf star \u2014 one of them likely a volcanic world of molten rock. The four-planet system had been hiding out in the M-shaped, northern hemisphere constellation Cassiopeia, \u201cjust\u201d 21 light years from Earth, a team reported in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics. Super-Earths have a mass higher than Earth\u2019s but are lighter than gas giants like Neptune, Saturn or Jupiter. They can be made of gas, rock, or both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/astronomers-star-three-super-earths-195105678.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers said Thursday they had found a planetary system with three super-Earths orbiting a bright, dwarf star \u2014 one of them likely a volcanic world of molten rock. The four-planet system had been hiding out in the M-shaped, northern hemisphere constellation Cassiopeia, \u201cjust\u201d 21 light years from Earth, a team reported in the journal Astronomy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69786,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions\/69786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}