{"id":189835,"date":"2024-05-21T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/citizen-scientists-help-discover-record-breaking-exoplanet-in-binary-star-system"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:25:45","slug":"citizen-scientists-help-discover-record-breaking-exoplanet-in-binary-star-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/citizen-scientists-help-discover-record-breaking-exoplanet-in-binary-star-system","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Scientists help Discover Record-Breaking Exoplanet in Binary Star System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/citizen-scientists-help-discover-record-breaking-exoplanet-in-binary-star-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system, including two stars and potentially another exoplanet.<\/p>\n<p>The planet hunters spotted the Neptune-like planet as it crossed in front of its host star, temporarily dimming the star\u2019s light in a way akin to a solar eclipse on Earth. This \u201ctransit method\u201d usually identifies planets with tight orbits, as they are more likely to follow paths that put them between Earth and their host star and, when following such paths, move into light-blocking positions more frequently. That\u2019s why this newly discovered planet is considered unusually far out, with the planet taking 272 days to lap its star.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the star is now by far the brightest one known to host a transiting planet in the habitable zone where liquid water can exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system, including two stars and potentially another exoplanet. The planet hunters spotted the Neptune-like planet as it crossed in front of its host star, temporarily dimming the star\u2019s light in a way akin to a solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189835","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}