{"id":162473,"date":"2023-04-19T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/new-exoplanet-seen-via-direct-imaging"},"modified":"2023-04-19T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:23:18","slug":"new-exoplanet-seen-via-direct-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/new-exoplanet-seen-via-direct-imaging","title":{"rendered":"New exoplanet seen via direct imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-exoplanet-seen-via-direct-imaging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The discovery of HIP 99,770 b, a new exoplanet located 133 light years away, is reported in the journal <em>Science<\/em>. A team of astronomers used a new detection method that combines direct imaging with astrometry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of today, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/exoplanet.eu\/catalog\/\" target=\"_blank\">5,363 confirmed exoplanets<\/a> in 3,960 planetary systems. However, only a handful have been seen via direct imaging. Exoplanets are extremely faint compared with their parent stars, making it difficult to spot them in visible light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of HIP 99,770 b, a new exoplanet located 133 light years away, is reported in the journal Science. A team of astronomers used a new detection method that combines direct imaging with astrometry. As of today, there are 5,363 confirmed exoplanets in 3,960 planetary systems. However, only a handful have been seen via [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162473","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\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}