{"id":193079,"date":"2024-07-17T14:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/exoplanet-with-weird-orbit-is-transforming-into-a-hot-jupiter-before-our-eyes"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T19:23:02","slug":"exoplanet-with-weird-orbit-is-transforming-into-a-hot-jupiter-before-our-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/exoplanet-with-weird-orbit-is-transforming-into-a-hot-jupiter-before-our-eyes","title":{"rendered":"Exoplanet with weird orbit is transforming into a hot Jupiter before our eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exoplanet-with-weird-orbit-is-transforming-into-a-hot-jupiter-before-our-eyes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAstronomers have been searching for exoplanets that are likely precursors to hot Jupiters, or that are intermediate products of the migration process, for more than two decades, so I was very surprised \u2014 and excited \u2014 to find one,\u201d team leader Arvind Gupta, a NOIRLab postdoctoral researcher, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/news\/noirlab2418\/?lang\" data-url=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/news\/noirlab2418\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s exactly what I was hoping to find.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scientists first used the NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet and Stellar Speckle Imager (NESSI) to remove <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/why-do-stars-twinkle\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/why-do-stars-twinkle\">\u201ctwinkling\u201d patterns caused by Earth\u2019s atmosphere<\/a>, as well as reduce noise coming from other sources of light that could pollute the signal from the star TIC 241,249,530 as its planet transits its face.<\/p>\n<p>Next, they measured the velocity of the exoplanet around the star using the NEID spectrograph to determine the star\u2019s shift in light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAstronomers have been searching for exoplanets that are likely precursors to hot Jupiters, or that are intermediate products of the migration process, for more than two decades, so I was very surprised \u2014 and excited \u2014 to find one,\u201d team leader Arvind Gupta, a NOIRLab postdoctoral researcher, said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s exactly what I [\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-193079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193079","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=193079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}