{"id":218764,"date":"2025-07-26T04:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/cosmic-death-spiral-astronomers-catch-planet-in-final-orbit-before-destruction"},"modified":"2025-07-26T04:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:10:51","slug":"cosmic-death-spiral-astronomers-catch-planet-in-final-orbit-before-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/cosmic-death-spiral-astronomers-catch-planet-in-final-orbit-before-destruction","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Death Spiral: Astronomers Catch Planet in Final Orbit Before Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmic-death-spiral-astronomers-catch-planet-in-final-orbit-before-destruction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers led by Macquarie University has monitored the orbital decay of an extreme exoplanet to gain new insights into how stars dissipate energy. The exoplanet TOI-2109b, found 870 light-years away in the Hercules constellation of the Milky Way, stands out as one of the most extreme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers led by Macquarie University has monitored the orbital decay of an extreme exoplanet to gain new insights into how stars dissipate energy. The exoplanet TOI-2109b, found 870 light-years away in the Hercules constellation of the Milky Way, stands out as one of the most extreme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218764","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}