{"id":258913,"date":"2017-01-09T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d74421176328c17880309411d5251a53"},"modified":"2017-01-09T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T10:55:09","slug":"hubble-captures-shadow-play-caused-by-possible-planet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=258913","title":{"rendered":"Hubble captures &#8216;shadow play&#8217; caused by possible planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eerie mysteries in the universe can be betrayed by simple shadows. The wonder of a solar eclipse is produced by the moon&#8217;s shadow, and over 1,000 planets around other stars have been cataloged by the shadow they cast when passing in front of their parent star. Astronomers were surprised to see a huge shadow sweeping across a disk of dust and gas encircling a nearby, young star. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eerie mysteries in the universe can be betrayed by simple shadows. The wonder of a solar eclipse is produced by the moon&#8217;s shadow, and over 1,000 planets around other stars have been cataloged by the shadow they cast when passing in front of their pare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258913","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258914,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258913\/revisions\/258914"}],"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=258913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}