{"id":177449,"date":"2013-01-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"dda4ef6ed834346df5e53102d288ba2a"},"modified":"2013-01-30T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:00:00","slug":"weighing-the-planet-forming-disc-around-a-nearby-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=177449","title":{"rendered":"Weighing the planet-forming disc around a nearby star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/01\/weighing_the_planet-forming_disc_around_a_nearby_star\/12502783-1-eng-GB\/Weighing_the_planet-forming_disc_around_a_nearby_star_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe 10 million-year-old star TW Hydrae is surrounded by a dense disc of planet-forming materials. Using ESA\u2019s Herschel space observatory, astronomers have been able to \u2018weigh\u2019 the star\u2019s disc with ten times higher accuracy than ever before, finding it still has enough mass to spawn 50 Jupiter-mass planets, several million years after most other stars have already given birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/01\/weighing_the_planet-forming_disc_around_a_nearby_star\/12502783-1-eng-GB\/Weighing_the_planet-forming_disc_around_a_nearby_star_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe 10 million-year-old star TW Hydrae is surrounded by a dense disc of planet-forming materials. Using ESA\u2019s Herschel space observatory, astronomers have been able to \u2018weigh\u2019 the star\u2019s disc with ten times higher accuracy than ever before, finding it still has enough mass to spawn 50 Jupiter-mass planets, several million years after most other stars have already given birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}