{"id":80582,"date":"2018-07-13T05:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/astronomers-discover-a-planetary-impact-outside-our-own-solar-system"},"modified":"2018-07-13T05:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T12:02:23","slug":"astronomers-discover-a-planetary-impact-outside-our-own-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/astronomers-discover-a-planetary-impact-outside-our-own-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover A Planetary Impact Outside Our Own Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-a-planetary-impact-outside-our-own-solar-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a study published in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6200\/1032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Science,<\/em><\/a> astronomers led by graduate student Huan Meng, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, announced the discovery of remains of a mammoth planetary collision.<\/p>\n<p>The team made its observations using NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope and several different ground-based instruments. The collision occurred between two planets orbiting a sunlike star called NGC-2547 ID8, which lies about 1,140 light-years from the earth. The star is a young one, with a system of planets still in the process of formation. The collision, which may have occurred as recently as two years ago, left a ring of dust and debris circling the star.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/astronomers-discover-a-planetary-impact-outside-our-own-1628438624\">https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/astronomers-discover-a-planetary-imp...1628438624<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study published in the latest issue of Science, astronomers led by graduate student Huan Meng, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, announced the discovery of remains of a mammoth planetary collision. The team made its observations using NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope and several different ground-based instruments. The collision occurred between two planets [\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-80582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80582","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=80582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}