{"id":173539,"date":"2023-10-05T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-do-astronomers-know-the-age-of-the-planets-and-stars"},"modified":"2023-10-05T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:14:15","slug":"how-do-astronomers-know-the-age-of-the-planets-and-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-do-astronomers-know-the-age-of-the-planets-and-stars","title":{"rendered":"How do astronomers know the age of the planets and stars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-do-astronomers-know-the-age-of-the-planets-and-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\/topics\/curious-kids-us-74795\">Curious Kids<\/a> is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you\u2019d like an expert to answer, send it to <a href=\"mailto:curiouskidsus@theconversation.com\">curiouskidsus@theconversation.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do we know the age of the planets and stars? \u2013 Swara D., age 13, Thane, India<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Measuring the ages of planets and stars helps scientists understand when they formed and how they change \u2013 and, in the case of planets, if <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ancestor-of-all-life-on-earth-evolved-earlier-than-we-thought-according-to-our-new-timescale-101752\">life has had time to have evolved on them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you\u2019d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How do we know the age of the planets and stars? \u2013 Swara D., age 13, Thane, India Measuring the ages of planets and stars helps scientists understand when they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173539","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}