{"id":20509,"date":"2016-01-06T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/atacama-large-millimetersubmillimeter-array-may-have-found-super-earth-in-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:42","slug":"atacama-large-millimetersubmillimeter-array-may-have-found-super-earth-in-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/atacama-large-millimetersubmillimeter-array-may-have-found-super-earth-in-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array may have found Super-Earth in our solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atacama-large-millimetersubmillimeter-array-may-have-found-super-earth-in-our-solar-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now this is something you don\u2019t hear every day.<\/p>\n<p>Or week.<\/p>\n<p>Or year.<\/p>\n<p>Or\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Astronomers using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found a distant object in the direction of Alpha Centauri. The object appears to be in the outer region of our solar system, and depending on its distance could be a hypothesized \u201d super-Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ALMA is capable of precise observations at short microwave wavelengths, typically emitted by cold gas and dust. But objects on the edge of our solar system also emit light in this range, and would be too cool and distant to be observed by infrared telescopes. In 2014, ALMA found a faint object in the direction of Alpha Centauri A and B. The object was again observed in May of this year, this time more clearly the object is most likely part of the solar system, in prograde motion, albeit at a distance too far to be detectable at other wavelengths,.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/atacama-large-millimetersubmillimeter-array-may-have-found-super-earth-in-our-solar-system\">Continue reading \u201cAtacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array may have found Super-Earth in our solar system\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is something you don\u2019t hear every day. Or week. Or year. Or\u2026 Astronomers using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found a distant object in the direction of Alpha Centauri. The object appears to be in the outer region of our solar system, and depending on its distance could be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68913,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions\/68913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}