{"id":222372,"date":"2025-09-24T03:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/astronomers-capture-first-ever-photo-of-a-baby-planet-being-born-in-darkness"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:39:47","slug":"astronomers-capture-first-ever-photo-of-a-baby-planet-being-born-in-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/astronomers-capture-first-ever-photo-of-a-baby-planet-being-born-in-darkness","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Capture First-Ever Photo of a Baby Planet Being Born in Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-capture-first-ever-photo-of-a-baby-planet-being-born-in-darkness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star.<\/p>\n<p>Using cutting-edge adaptive optics, the team detected the glowing hydrogen gas streaming onto the infant world, essentially catching it mid-birth.<\/p>\n<p>First detection of a growing exoplanet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star. Using cutting-edge adaptive optics, the team detected the glowing hydrogen gas streaming onto the infant world, essentially catching it mid-birth. First detection of a growing exoplanet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222372","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=222372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}