{"id":206149,"date":"2025-02-11T16:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/fast-moving-exoplanet-system-may-be-the-fastest-ever-discovered"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:08:03","slug":"fast-moving-exoplanet-system-may-be-the-fastest-ever-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/fast-moving-exoplanet-system-may-be-the-fastest-ever-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Fast-moving exoplanet system may be the fastest-ever discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fast-moving-exoplanet-system-may-be-the-fastest-ever-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPACE (KXAN) \u2014 A star flying through the night sky may be the fastest-moving solar system in our galaxy. Possibly a planet a little larger than Neptune orbiting a small star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/universe\/nasa-scientists-spot-candidate-for-speediest-exoplanet-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the system could be moving at least 1.2 million miles per hour<\/a>, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>First discovered in 2011, the system was included in a research project led by Sean Terry with the University of Maryland, College Park, and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center. <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-3881\/ad9b0f\/meta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Terry\u2019s paper on the star was published in February in The Astronomical Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance that would lie between the orbits of Venus and Earth if it were in our solar system,\u201d Terry said in a press release from NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPACE (KXAN) \u2014 A star flying through the night sky may be the fastest-moving solar system in our galaxy. Possibly a planet a little larger than Neptune orbiting a small star, the system could be moving at least 1.2 million miles per hour, according to NASA. First discovered in 2011, the system was included in [\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-206149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206149","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=206149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}