{"id":258849,"date":"2017-01-07T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T16:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/01\/170107113538.htm"},"modified":"2017-01-07T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T16:35:38","slug":"hubble-captures-shadow-play-caused-by-possible-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=258849","title":{"rendered":"Hubble captures &#8216;shadow play&#8217; caused by possible planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have been surprised to see a huge shadow sweeping across a disk of dust and gas encircling the nearby, young star TW Hydrae. They have a bird&#8217;s-eye view of the disk, because it is tilted face-on to Earth, and the shadow sweeps around the disk like the hands moving around a clock. But, unlike the hands of a clock, the shadow takes 16 years to make one rotation. Hubble has 18 years&#8217; worth of observations of the star; therefore, astronomers could assemble a time-lapse movie of the shadow&#8217;s rotation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have been surprised to see a huge shadow sweeping across a disk of dust and gas encircling the nearby, young star TW Hydrae. They have a bird&#8217;s-eye view of the disk, because it is tilted face-on to Earth, and the shadow sweeps around the di&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258849","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258850,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258849\/revisions\/258850"}],"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=258849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}