{"id":186709,"date":"2024-04-03T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/james-webb-space-telescope-spots-hints-of-exomoons-forming-in-infant-star-system"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:24:07","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-spots-hints-of-exomoons-forming-in-infant-star-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/james-webb-space-telescope-spots-hints-of-exomoons-forming-in-infant-star-system","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope spots hints of exomoons forming in infant star system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-spots-hints-of-exomoons-forming-in-infant-star-system3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It remains a fascinating system for astronomers because the protostar and its protoplanetary disk are estimated to be no older than 5.5 million years \u2014 a cosmic infant compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDS 70 is special, as it is the only protoplanetary disk so far where all astronomers agree that we have found forming planets caught in the act,\u201d Christiaens said. \u201cDetailed study of this system has thus allowed us to learn a lot about planet formation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researcher said that little is known about the properties of the potential third planet around PDS 70 thus far. The planet \u2014 which, if confirmed, would be designated PDS 70D \u2014 appears to be shrouded in a vast amount of dust, and it orbits its infant star at around 13 times the distance between Earth and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\">the sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It remains a fascinating system for astronomers because the protostar and its protoplanetary disk are estimated to be no older than 5.5 million years \u2014 a cosmic infant compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old solar system. \u201cPDS 70 is special, as it is the only protoplanetary disk so far where all astronomers agree that we have found [\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-186709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186709","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=186709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}