{"id":197828,"date":"2024-10-17T09:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/its-twins-mystery-of-famed-brown-dwarf-solved"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T14:24:16","slug":"its-twins-mystery-of-famed-brown-dwarf-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/its-twins-mystery-of-famed-brown-dwarf-solved","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s twins! Mystery of famed brown dwarf solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-twins-mystery-of-famed-brown-dwarf-solved2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute\u2019s Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing mystery has persisted about this orb: It is too dim for its mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute\u2019s Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing mystery has persisted about this orb: It is too dim for its mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197828","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}