{"id":229279,"date":"2026-01-18T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/giant-iron-bar-found-in-the-ring-nebula-may-be-a-destroyed-planet"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:20:26","slug":"giant-iron-bar-found-in-the-ring-nebula-may-be-a-destroyed-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/giant-iron-bar-found-in-the-ring-nebula-may-be-a-destroyed-planet","title":{"rendered":"Giant iron bar found in the Ring Nebula may be a destroyed planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-iron-bar-found-in-the-ring-nebula-may-be-a-destroyed-planet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 500 times the size of Pluto\u2019s orbit and made of iron.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Using the new LIFU technology on the William Herschel Telescope, researchers have detected a massive iron cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 500 times the size of Pluto\u2019s orbit and made of iron. Using the new LIFU technology on the William Herschel Telescope, researchers have detected a massive iron cloud.<\/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-229279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229279","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=229279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}