{"id":896,"date":"2004-05-18T02:58:56","date_gmt":"2004-05-18T02:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:59","slug":"astronomy-photo-may-show-another-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"astronomy: photo may show another world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Astronomers from Pennsylvania State University may  have taken the first photo of a planet circling a distant star. Though  many planets outside our solar system have already been discovered, this  would be the first time another world has ever been photographed  directly. The difficulty is that the much brighter light of host stars  usually obscures fainter objects, such as planets. So, using the Hubble  Space Telescope&#8217;s infrared camera, the researchers looked for planets  circling white dwarfs, dimmer stars near the end of their lives. They  hope that the small blob (white dot at upper right) circling the star in  the photo they&#8217;ve taken is a planet, and not just a background object  in the same field of view. However, the researchers won&#8217;t be able to  confirm their discovery until more observations are done over the next  six months. If it is a planet, the object is 5- to 10-times the mass of  Jupiter, and orbits a star about 100 light years away. <em>Nature News  Service<\/em> reports that the astronomers won&#8217;t reveal the star&#8217;s precise  location because they fear other researchers may scoop their results. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 5\/18\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from Pennsylvania State University may have taken the first photo of a planet circling a distant star. Though many planets outside our solar system have already been discovered, this would be the first time another world has ever been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=896\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}