{"id":200063,"date":"2024-11-24T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T11:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/youngest-planet-ever-discovered-challenges-planet-formation-timelines"},"modified":"2024-11-24T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T11:31:10","slug":"youngest-planet-ever-discovered-challenges-planet-formation-timelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/youngest-planet-ever-discovered-challenges-planet-formation-timelines","title":{"rendered":"Youngest planet ever discovered challenges planet formation timelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/abjdv2AExG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2024\/11\/scientists-youngest-transiting-exoplanet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The planet<\/a>, a very young gas giant, is about 521 light-years away from Earth. Its strange orbit also enables researchers to get exciting information as it transits in front of its parent star with little to no obstructions to Earth-based instruments, like NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which made the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>IRAS 04125+2902 b is roughly the same age as its parent star, which is far too brief in cosmic terms under our current understanding of planet formation.<\/p>\n<p>IRAS 04125+2902 b has a radius roughly 10.7 times larger than that of Earth, making it comparable in size to Jupiter. However, it is significantly less dense, possessing only 30% of Jupiter\u2019s mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planet, a very young gas giant, is about 521 light-years away from Earth. Its strange orbit also enables researchers to get exciting information as it transits in front of its parent star with little to no obstructions to Earth-based instruments, like NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which made the discovery. IRAS 04125+2902 b [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200063","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}