{"id":26864,"date":"2016-06-14T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/amazing-photo-shows-likely-alien-planet-1200-light-years-away"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:33:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:33:29","slug":"amazing-photo-shows-likely-alien-planet-1200-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/amazing-photo-shows-likely-alien-planet-1200-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Photo Shows Likely Alien Planet 1,200 Light-Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazing-photo-shows-likely-alien-planet-1200-light-years-away.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mind = BLOWN<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A jaw-dropping new photo shows a probable alien planet orbiting a star that lies 1,200 light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The potential planet appears as a brownish dot to the left of the bright bluish-white star CVSO 30 in the newly released image, which was captured by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/21258-eso-very-large-telescope-space-photos.html\">Very Large Telescope<\/a> in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>To appreciate just how fantastic it is to have a direct image of this candidate world, consider that CVSO 30 is about 280 times farther away from Earth than is Alpha Centauri, the star system nearest to our own. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/16681-alien-planets-quiz.html\">Alien Planet Quiz: Are You an Exoplanet Expert?<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33160-alien-planet-photo-cvso-30c-vlt.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/33160-alien-planet-photo-cvso-30c-vlt.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind = BLOWN A jaw-dropping new photo shows a probable alien planet orbiting a star that lies 1,200 light-years from Earth. The potential planet appears as a brownish dot to the left of the bright bluish-white star CVSO 30 in the newly released image, which was captured by the European Southern Observatory\u2019s (ESO) Very Large [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50266,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26864\/revisions\/50266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}