{"id":787362,"date":"2024-08-15T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T22:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787362"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T22:20:53","slug":"hellish-conditions-have-warped-an-earth-like-planet-into-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787362","title":{"rendered":"Hellish conditions have warped an Earth-like planet into an egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Exoplanets that get too close to their parent stars experience harsh conditions<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Nazarii_Neshcherenskyi\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A distant Earth-sized planet is orbiting so close to its parent star that gravity is stretching it to an extreme degree, turning it egg-shaped.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of known exoplanets are extremely close to their parent stars, which exposes them to incredibly harsh conditions. These \u201cultra-short period\u201d planets \u2013 they take less than a day to complete one loop around their stars \u2013 are blasted with radiation and often have surfaces composed entirely of lava.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Fei Dai at the University of Hawai\u02bbi and his colleagues have discovered\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2444193-hellish-conditions-have-warped-an-earth-like-planet-into-an-egg\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exoplanets that get too close to their parent stars experience harsh conditions Nazarii_Neshcherenskyi\/Shutterstock A distant Earth-sized planet is orbiting so close to its parent star that gravity is stretching it&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787362","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=787362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}