{"id":145106,"date":"2019-08-20T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145106"},"modified":"2019-08-20T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:26:38","slug":"new-planet-discovered-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145106","title":{"rendered":"New Planet Discovered In Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/New-Planet-Discovered-In-Orbit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A second planet has been discovered circling Beta Pictoris, a fledgling star in our own galaxy offering astronomers a rare glimpse of a planetary system in the making, according to a study published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talking about a giant planet about 3,000 times more massive than Earth, situated 2.7 times further from its star than the Earth is from the Sun,\u201d said Anne-Marie Lagrange, an astronomer at France\u2019s National Centre for Scientific Research and lead author of a study in Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>The new planet, b Pictoris c, completes its orbit roughly every 1,200 days. Like its big sister b Pictoris b, discovered by Lagrange and her team in 2009, it is a gassy giant.<\/p>\n<p>Visible with the naked eye, Beta Pictoris \u2014 with a mass nearly twice that of the Sun \u2014 is a newborn by comparison: only 23 million years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun is more than 4.5 billion years old.<\/p>\n<p>It is also relatively nearby, just over 63 light years, and surrounded by a disk of stellar dust, according to a report by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo better understand the early stage of formation and evolution, this is probably the best planetary system we know of,\u201d Lagrange said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second planet has been discovered circling Beta Pictoris, a fledgling star in our own galaxy offering astronomers a rare glimpse of a planetary system in the making, according to a study published Monday. \u201cWe talking about a giant planet about 3,000 times more massive than Earth, situated 2.7 times further from its star than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}