{"id":642524,"date":"2020-01-09T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642524"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:00:20","slug":"a-new-tool-for-weighing-unseen-planets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642524","title":{"rendered":"A new tool for &#039;weighing&#039; unseen planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new instrument funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation called NEID (pronounced &#8220;NOO-id&#8221;; sounds like &#8220;fluid&#8221;) will help scientists measure the masses of planets outside our solar system\u2014exoplanets\u2014by observing the gravitational pull they exert on their parent stars. That information can help reveal a planet&#8217;s composition, one critical aspect in determining its potential habitability.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-01-tool-unseen-planets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A new tool for &#8216;weighing&#8217; unseen planets<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new instrument funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation called NEID (pronounced &#8220;NOO-id&#8221;; sounds like &#8220;fluid&#8221;) will help scientists measure the masses of planets outside our solar system\u2014exoplanets\u2014by&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642524","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642524\/revisions"}],"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=642524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}