{"id":221525,"date":"2025-09-07T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/astronomers-capture-breathtaking-first-look-at-a-planet-being-born"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:08:29","slug":"astronomers-capture-breathtaking-first-look-at-a-planet-being-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/astronomers-capture-breathtaking-first-look-at-a-planet-being-born","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers capture breathtaking first look at a planet being born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-capture-breathtaking-first-look-at-a-planet-being-born2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WISPIT2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multiringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet offers a unique opportunity to study planetary birth and evolution.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet.<\/p>\n<p>Detected at an early stage of formation around a young analog of our own Sun, the planet is estimated to be about 5 million years-old and most likely a gas giant of similar size to Jupiter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WISPIT2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multiringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet offers a unique opportunity to study planetary birth and evolution. An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221525","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}