{"id":94353,"date":"2019-08-01T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nasas-newest-planet-hunting-telescope-just-discovered-a-super-earth-and-2-sub-neptunes-less-than-75-light-years-away-among-the-closest-exoplanets"},"modified":"2019-08-01T22:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T05:22:26","slug":"nasas-newest-planet-hunting-telescope-just-discovered-a-super-earth-and-2-sub-neptunes-less-than-75-light-years-away-among-the-closest-exoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nasas-newest-planet-hunting-telescope-just-discovered-a-super-earth-and-2-sub-neptunes-less-than-75-light-years-away-among-the-closest-exoplanets","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s newest planet-hunting telescope just discovered a \u2018super-Earth\u2019 and 2 \u2018sub-Neptunes\u2019 less than 75 light-years away \u2014 among the closest exoplanets ever found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-newest-planet-hunting-telescope-just-discovered-a-super-earth-and-2-sub-neptunes-less-than-75-light-years-away-among-the-closest-exoplanets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three newly discovered worlds are among the smallest and nearest we\u2019ve ever detected.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS \u2014 a super-powerful orbiting telescope designed to hunt for alien worlds \u2014 found the planets orbiting a star just 73 light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>One is a rocky \u201csuper-Earth\u201d that\u2019s more massive than our home planet but lighter than giants like Neptune. The other two are icy \u201csub-Neptunes\u201d that are about half the size of Neptune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three newly discovered worlds are among the smallest and nearest we\u2019ve ever detected. NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS \u2014 a super-powerful orbiting telescope designed to hunt for alien worlds \u2014 found the planets orbiting a star just 73 light-years away. One is a rocky \u201csuper-Earth\u201d that\u2019s more massive than our home planet but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94353","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}