{"id":84750,"date":"2018-11-15T03:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/theres-a-new-way-to-hunt-down-exoplanets-and-its-just-made-its-first-big-discovery"},"modified":"2018-11-15T03:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:42:22","slug":"theres-a-new-way-to-hunt-down-exoplanets-and-its-just-made-its-first-big-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/theres-a-new-way-to-hunt-down-exoplanets-and-its-just-made-its-first-big-discovery","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a new way to hunt down exoplanets \u2013 and it\u2019s just made its first big discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-new-way-to-hunt-down-exoplanets-and-its-just-made-its-first-big-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new planet, more than three times the mass of Earth, has been discovered orbiting our closest single star. The discovery, which took more than 20 years to make, marks a change in the way we look for new planets.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a planet of its size, known as a super-Earth, with an orbital period of 200 days, has been found using a well-established method; by measuring the fractional changes in the speed of the star caused by the planet orbiting around it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/new-exoplanet-barnard-star\">https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/new-exoplanet-barnard-star<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new planet, more than three times the mass of Earth, has been discovered orbiting our closest single star. The discovery, which took more than 20 years to make, marks a change in the way we look for new planets. This is the first time a planet of its size, known as a super-Earth, with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84750","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\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}