{"id":193481,"date":"2024-07-24T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/nasa-drops-stunning-new-image-of-alien-planet-just-12-light-years-away"},"modified":"2024-07-24T18:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T23:23:15","slug":"nasa-drops-stunning-new-image-of-alien-planet-just-12-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/nasa-drops-stunning-new-image-of-alien-planet-just-12-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"NASA Drops Stunning New Image Of Alien Planet Just 12 Light-Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-drops-stunning-new-image-of-alien-planet-just-12-light-years-away3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered one of the oldest and coldest-known exoplanets by directly imaging its host star (see image, below).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time JWST has imaged an exoplanet that had not already been imaged using a ground-based telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star other than our sun. Almost all of the 5,000 known exoplanets have been discovered indirectly using the transit method, detecting changes in the light of a star as a planet crosses in front of its disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered one of the oldest and coldest-known exoplanets by directly imaging its host star (see image, below). It\u2019s the first time JWST has imaged an exoplanet that had not already been imaged using a ground-based telescope. Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star other than our sun. [\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-193481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193481","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=193481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}