{"id":213581,"date":"2025-05-08T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/nothing-is-as-we-thought-harvard-smithsonian-astrophysics-center-reveals-that-super-earths-are-more-common-and-diverse-in-the-milky-way-than-previously-thought-according-to-study-ogle-2016"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:10:35","slug":"nothing-is-as-we-thought-harvard-smithsonian-astrophysics-center-reveals-that-super-earths-are-more-common-and-diverse-in-the-milky-way-than-previously-thought-according-to-study-ogle-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/nothing-is-as-we-thought-harvard-smithsonian-astrophysics-center-reveals-that-super-earths-are-more-common-and-diverse-in-the-milky-way-than-previously-thought-according-to-study-ogle-2016","title":{"rendered":"Nothing is as we thought \u2014 Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center reveals that super-Earths are more common and diverse in the Milky Way than previously thought, according to study OGLE-2016-BLG-0007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nothing-is-as-we-thought-harvard-smithsonian-astrophysics-center-reveals-that-super-earths-are-more-common-and-diverse-in-the-milky-way-than-previously-thought-according-to-study-ogle-20162.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do we know everything about the Milky Way? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adn6088\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A team of astronomers has arrived to change everything we know about our universe, and they have found strong evidence that super-Earths<\/a> (planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune) could be much more common than previously thought! They discovered it thanks to a technique called gravitational microlensing. Don\u2019t worry if you don\u2019t understand it, keep reading and we\u2019ll explain everything.<\/p>\n<p>The study was led by scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and <a href=\"https:\/\/unionrayo.com\/en\/nasa-exomoons-extraterrestrial-life-search\/\">it reveals that one in three stars in the Milky<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/unionrayo.com\/en\/nasa-exomoons-extraterrestrial-life-search\/\">Way<\/a> could have a super-Earth. Isn\u2019t that exciting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we know everything about the Milky Way? A team of astronomers has arrived to change everything we know about our universe, and they have found strong evidence that super-Earths (planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune) could be much more common than previously thought! They discovered it thanks to a technique called gravitational [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213581","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}