{"id":312737,"date":"2017-05-09T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=695223196831701fced416cf4051e8f6"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:06:13","slug":"surprise-when-a-brown-dwarf-is-actually-a-planetary-mass-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=312737","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! When a brown dwarf is actually a planetary mass object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a brown dwarf is actually a planet\u2014or planet-like anyway. A team led by Carnegie&#8217;s Jonathan Gagn\u00e9, and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, the American Museum of Natural History, and University of California San Diego, discovered that what astronomers had previously thought was one of the closest brown dwarfs to our own Sun is in fact a planetary mass object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a brown dwarf is actually a planet&mdash;or planet-like anyway. A team led by Carnegie&#8217;s Jonathan Gagn&eacute;, and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Universit&eacute; de Montr&eacute;al, the American Museum of Natural History, and University of California San Diego, discovered that what astronomers had previously thought was one of the closest brown dwarfs to our own Sun is in fact a planetary mass object.<\/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-312737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312737","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=312737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312738,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312737\/revisions\/312738"}],"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=312737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}