{"id":235912,"date":"2026-04-25T06:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/how-worlds-are-created-university-of-washington-astronomers-find-evidence-of-planets-clashing"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:43:30","slug":"how-worlds-are-created-university-of-washington-astronomers-find-evidence-of-planets-clashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/how-worlds-are-created-university-of-washington-astronomers-find-evidence-of-planets-clashing","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How worlds are created\u2019: University of Washington astronomers find evidence of planets clashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-worlds-are-created-university-of-washington-astronomers-find-evidence-of-planets-clashing2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anastasios Tzanidakis, a UW doctoral student in astronomy, was looking through data from 2020 when he noticed an otherwise unremarkable star\u2019s light dimming and then fluctuating wildly. What he found was evidence of planets colliding \u2014 which could shed light on how planets, like ours, form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anastasios Tzanidakis, a UW doctoral student in astronomy, was looking through data from 2020 when he noticed an otherwise unremarkable star\u2019s light dimming and then fluctuating wildly. What he found was evidence of planets colliding \u2014 which could shed light on how planets, like ours, form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235912","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}