{"id":175360,"date":"2023-11-03T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasa-telescope-reveals-7-new-planets-orbiting-distant-star-hotter-than-the-sun"},"modified":"2023-11-03T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:24:47","slug":"nasa-telescope-reveals-7-new-planets-orbiting-distant-star-hotter-than-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasa-telescope-reveals-7-new-planets-orbiting-distant-star-hotter-than-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"NASA telescope reveals 7 new planets orbiting distant star \u201chotter than the sun\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-telescope-reveals-7-new-planets-orbiting-distant-star-hotter-than-the-sun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers studying data from NASA\u2019s retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven \u201cscorching\u201d planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/general\/scorching-seven-planet-system-revealed-by-new-kepler-exoplanet-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the space agency said Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NASA described the newly found planets as \u201csweltering\u201d and \u201cbathed\u201d in radiant heat emitted by the host star that was described as \u201csun-like.\u201d That star is 10% larger and 5% \u201chotter than the sun,\u201d NASA said, and there is more heat per area from that star than any planet in our solar system experiences.<\/p>\n<p>All of the planets are larger than Earth, with the two inner planets just slightly larger and the other five planets even bigger, about twice the size of Earth. The inner planets are \u201cprobably rocky and may have thin atmospheres,\u201d NASA said, while the five outer planets are expected to have thick atmospheres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers studying data from NASA\u2019s retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven \u201cscorching\u201d planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space agency said Thursday. NASA described the newly found planets as \u201csweltering\u201d and \u201cbathed\u201d in radiant heat emitted by the host star that was described [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175360","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=175360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}