{"id":217824,"date":"2025-07-14T06:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/astronomers-find-a-giant-hiding-in-the-fog-around-a-young-star"},"modified":"2025-07-14T06:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:08:21","slug":"astronomers-find-a-giant-hiding-in-the-fog-around-a-young-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/astronomers-find-a-giant-hiding-in-the-fog-around-a-young-star","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find a giant hiding in the \u2018fog\u2019 around a young star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-a-giant-hiding-in-the-fog-around-a-young-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet\u2014between three and ten times the size of Jupiter\u2014hiding in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier observations of this star, called MP Mus, suggested that it was all alone without any planets in orbit around it, surrounded by a featureless cloud of gas and dust.<\/p>\n<p>However, a second look at MP Mus, using a combination of results from the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia mission, suggest that the star is not alone after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet\u2014between three and ten times the size of Jupiter\u2014hiding in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star. Earlier observations of this star, called MP Mus, suggested that it was all alone without any planets in orbit around it, surrounded by a featureless cloud of gas and [\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-217824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217824","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=217824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}