{"id":492677,"date":"2018-07-02T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c4ce4a11d0b788ec093f82ac6874287f"},"modified":"2018-07-02T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T10:00:01","slug":"first-confirmed-image-of-newborn-planet-caught-with-esos-vlt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=492677","title":{"rendered":"First confirmed image of newborn planet caught with ESO&#8217;s VLT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers led by a group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany have captured a spectacular snapshot of planetary formation around the young dwarf star PDS 70. By using the SPHERE instrument on ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope (VLT)\u2014one of the most powerful planet-hunting instruments in existence\u2014the international team has made the first robust detection of a young planet, named PDS 70b, cleaving a path through the planet-forming material surrounding the young star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers led by a group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany have captured a spectacular snapshot of planetary formation around the young dwarf star PDS 70. By using the SPHERE instrument on ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope (VLT)&mdash;one of the most powerful planet-hunting instruments in existence&mdash;the international team has made the first robust detection of a young planet, named PDS 70b, cleaving a path through the planet-forming material surrounding the young star.<\/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-492677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492677","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=492677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492678,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492677\/revisions\/492678"}],"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=492677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}