{"id":270257,"date":"2017-01-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1e952e775d1c15d8205262b26e03a09c"},"modified":"2017-01-27T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:00:00","slug":"esa-euronews-hunting-earth-like-exoplanets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=270257","title":{"rendered":"ESA Euronews: Hunting Earth-like exoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/01\/esa_euronews_hunting_earth-like_exoplanets\/16619890-1-eng-GB\/ESA_Euronews_Hunting_Earth-like_exoplanets_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIn this edition of Space, Euronews correspondent Jeremy Wilks reports from the Observatory of Geneva &#8211; home to experts in exoplanets, the name given to planets outside our solar system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo far they have managed to find more than 3500 exoplanets but they believe there could be literally billions of them across the Milky Way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe first exoplanet to be discovered was what&#8217;s known as a hot Jupiter, a giant gas planet orbiting close to its star. That discovery, made by University of Geneva professor Michel Mayor in 1995, kick-started a revolution in astronomy, one which at the time of our interview put the number of exoplanets at 3559 and counting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of Space, Euronews correspondent Jeremy Wilks reports from the Observatory of Geneva &#8211; home to experts in exoplanets, the name given to planets outside our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>So far they have managed to find more than 3500 exopl&#8230;<\/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-270257","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\/270257","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=270257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270258,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270257\/revisions\/270258"}],"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=270257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}