{"id":564098,"date":"2019-01-04T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c0bbaad9e3e0fa966c032d80319aa1e7"},"modified":"2019-01-04T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:22:33","slug":"tiny-satellites-could-be-guide-stars-for-huge-next-generation-telescopes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=564098","title":{"rendered":"Tiny satellites could be &#8216;guide stars&#8217; for huge next-generation telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 3,900 confirmed planets beyond our solar system. Most of them have been detected because of their &#8220;transits&#8221;\u2014instances when a planet crosses its star, momentarily blocking its light. These dips in starlight can tell astronomers a bit about a planet&#8217;s size and its distance from its star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 3,900 confirmed planets beyond our solar system. Most of them have been detected because of their &#8220;transits&#8221;&mdash;instances when a planet crosses its star, momentarily blocking its light. These dips in starlight can tell astronomers a bit about a planet&#8217;s size and its distance from its 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-564098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564098","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=564098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564099,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564098\/revisions\/564099"}],"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=564098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}