{"id":10578,"date":"2020-04-21T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:20:20","slug":"fake-planet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/21\/fake-planet-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Planet News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/04\/21\/fomalhaut-b-disappearing-exoplanet-may-just-cloud-dust\/2995898001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/04\/21\/USAT\/0fb6916a-878c-4868-a135-9ca9e99b9737-smashup_web.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What scientists had believed was a planet beyond our solar system has now apparently disappeared from sight, a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2020\/04\/15\/1912506117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;study<\/a>&nbsp;says, which suggests &#8220;that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered &#8230; likely never existed,&#8221; according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uanews.arizona.edu\/story\/astronomers-discover-planet-never-was\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Arizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;exoplanet,&#8221; a planet outside our solar system, supposedly orbited around Fomalhaut, a star 25 light-years away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of a planet, which had been named Fomalhaut b, what astronomers likely saw was a large cloud of dust from two icy bodies that had smashed into each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese collisions are exceedingly rare, and so this is a big deal that we actually get to see one,\u201d study lead author Andr\u00e1s G\u00e1sp\u00e1r of the University of Arizona said in a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/exoplanet-apparently-disappears-in-latest-hubble-observations\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>. &#8220;We believe that we were at the right place at the right time to have witnessed such an unlikely event with the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/04\/21\/fomalhaut-b-disappearing-exoplanet-may-just-cloud-dust\/2995898001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at USAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from USA Today What scientists had believed was a planet beyond our solar system has now apparently disappeared from sight, a&nbsp;study&nbsp;says, which suggests &#8220;that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered &#8230; likely never existed,&#8221; according to the&nbsp;University of Arizona. The &#8220;exoplanet,&#8221; a planet outside our solar system, supposedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}