{"id":177196,"date":"2023-12-01T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-new-solar-system-has-been-found-in-the-milky-way-all-6-planets-are-perfectly-in-sync-astronomers-say"},"modified":"2023-12-01T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:27:53","slug":"a-new-solar-system-has-been-found-in-the-milky-way-all-6-planets-are-perfectly-in-sync-astronomers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-new-solar-system-has-been-found-in-the-milky-way-all-6-planets-are-perfectly-in-sync-astronomers-say","title":{"rendered":"A new solar system has been found in the Milky Way. All 6 planets are perfectly in-sync, astronomers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-solar-system-has-been-found-in-the-milky-way-all-6-planets-are-perfectly-in-sync-astronomers-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. A pair of planet-hunting satellites \u2014 NASA\u2019s Tess and the European Space Agency\u2019s Cheops \u2014 teamed up for the observations that discovered the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer at Philadelphia\u2019s Franklin Institute, told CBS News that the planets are a rare example of how researchers \u201cthink solar systems are born.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be. This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177196","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=177196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}