{"id":80326,"date":"2018-07-02T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T00:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/birth-of-a-planet-captured-for-first-time-as-gas-giant-bigger-than-jupiter-swirls-into-existence"},"modified":"2018-07-02T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T00:02:58","slug":"birth-of-a-planet-captured-for-first-time-as-gas-giant-bigger-than-jupiter-swirls-into-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/birth-of-a-planet-captured-for-first-time-as-gas-giant-bigger-than-jupiter-swirls-into-existence","title":{"rendered":"Birth of a planet captured for first time as gas giant bigger than Jupiter swirls into existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/birth-of-a-planet-captured-for-first-time-as-gas-giant-bigger-than-jupiter-swirls-into-existence2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>E ven by astronomical standards it is a discovery that is out of this world.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planet, a huge gas giant many times the size of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/jupiter\/\">Jupiter<\/a>, swirling into existence 370 light years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The theory of how gas planets form from a vortex of hydrogen and helium molecules captivated by their own gravity, is now widely accepted by scientists. But it has never been seen before, until now.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/07\/02\/birth-planet-captured-first-time-gas-giant-bigger-jupiter-swirls\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/07\/02\/birth-planet-...er-swirls\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E ven by astronomical standards it is a discovery that is out of this world. Scientists have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planet, a huge gas giant many times the size of Jupiter, swirling into existence 370 light years from Earth. The theory of how gas planets form from a vortex [\u2026]<\/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-80326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80326","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=80326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}