{"id":17539,"date":"2015-09-20T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/this-is-the-best-footage-yet-of-an-exoplanet-orbiting-its-star"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:38:48","slug":"this-is-the-best-footage-yet-of-an-exoplanet-orbiting-its-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/this-is-the-best-footage-yet-of-an-exoplanet-orbiting-its-star","title":{"rendered":"This is the Best Footage Yet of an Exoplanet Orbiting its Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-the-best-footage-yet-of-an-exoplanet-orbiting-its-star.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And\u2026it\u2019s literally six seconds of pixelated blob. But before you laugh, know this: Capturing that planetary transit you just witnessed was <em>no easy task<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re looking at Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant ten to twelve times the mass of Jupiter that orbits a star over 60 light years away. That\u2019s 3.527 \u00d7 10<sup>14<\/sup> miles from us, and we\u2019re actually able to see it! If you\u2019re still not impressed, try this on for size: Beta Pictoris b is roughly a million times dimmer than its parent star.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-the-best-footage-yet-of-an-exoplanet-orbiting-i-1731789020\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And\u2026it\u2019s literally six seconds of pixelated blob. But before you laugh, know this: Capturing that planetary transit you just witnessed was no easy task. You\u2019re looking at Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant ten to twelve times the mass of Jupiter that orbits a star over 60 light years away. That\u2019s 3.527 \u00d7 1014 miles [\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-17539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539","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=17539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64152,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17539\/revisions\/64152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}