{"id":713192,"date":"2022-01-10T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=713192"},"modified":"2022-01-10T04:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T08:35:00","slug":"cheops-reveals-a-rugby-ball-shaped-exoplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=713192","title":{"rendered":"Cheops reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Artist_impression_of_planet_WASP-103b_and_its_host_star_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s exoplanet mission <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cheops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cheops<\/a> has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star within a day has a deformed shape more like that of a rugby ball than a sphere. This is the first time that the deformation of an exoplanet has been detected, offering new insights into the internal structure of these star-hugging planets.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cheops\/Cheops_reveals_a_rugby_ball-shaped_exoplanet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cheops reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star within a day has a deformed shape more like that of a rugby ball than a sphere.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":713193,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713192","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=713192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/713193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}