{"id":73618,"date":"2017-11-02T04:37:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T11:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/monster-planet-discovery-challenges-formation-theory"},"modified":"2017-11-02T04:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T11:37:55","slug":"monster-planet-discovery-challenges-formation-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/monster-planet-discovery-challenges-formation-theory","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Monster\u2019 planet discovery challenges formation theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/monster-planet-discovery-challenges-formation-theory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A giant planet \u2013 the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely \u2013 has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University of Warwick taking a leading role.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/services\/communications\/medialibrary\/images\/october2017\/exoplanet_ngts-1b_-_credit_university_of_warwick__mark_garlick.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"exoplanet 1\" title=\"Artist's impression of sunrise on planet NGTS-1b - credit University of Warwick\/Mark Garlick\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/monster-planet-discovery-challenges-formation-theory2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research, led by Dr Daniel Bayliss and Professor Peter Wheatley from the University of Warwick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/sci\/physics\/research\/astro\/\"> Astronomy and Astrophysics Group<\/a>, has identified the unusual planet NGTS-1b \u2014 the largest planet compared to the size of its companion star ever discovered in the universe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/newsandevents\/pressreleases\/monster_planet_discovery\">https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/newsandevents\/pressreleases\/monster_planet_discovery<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant planet \u2013 the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely \u2013 has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University of Warwick taking a leading role. New research, led by Dr Daniel Bayliss and Professor Peter Wheatley from the University of Warwick\u2019s Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, has identified the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73618","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}