{"id":163640,"date":"2023-05-10T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/how-do-scientists-determine-the-compositions-of-planets-and-stars"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:23:48","slug":"how-do-scientists-determine-the-compositions-of-planets-and-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/how-do-scientists-determine-the-compositions-of-planets-and-stars","title":{"rendered":"How do scientists determine the compositions of planets and stars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-do-scientists-determine-the-compositions-of-planets-and-stars3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cristina Montes<\/strong> <em>Muntinlupa, Philippines<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The most common method astronomers use to determine the composition of stars, planets, and other objects is <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/magazine\/ask-astro\/2014\/05\/spectral-lines\" target=\"_blank\">spectroscopy<\/a>. Today, this process uses instruments with a grating that spreads out the light from an object by wavelength. This spread-out light is called a spectrum. Every element \u2014 and combination of elements \u2014 has a unique fingerprint that astronomers can look for in the spectrum of a given object. Identifying those fingerprints allows researchers to determine what it is made of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristina Montes Muntinlupa, Philippines The most common method astronomers use to determine the composition of stars, planets, and other objects is spectroscopy. Today, this process uses instruments with a grating that spreads out the light from an object by wavelength. This spread-out light is called a spectrum. Every element \u2014 and combination of elements \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163640","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}