{"id":272,"date":"2019-11-03T03:44:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T03:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2019-11-jupiter-sized-exoplanet-microlensing-html\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T03:44:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T03:44:51","slug":"2019-11-jupiter-sized-exoplanet-microlensing-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2019-11-jupiter-sized-exoplanet-microlensing-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter-sized exoplanet discovered through microlensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter-sized exoplanet discovered through microlensing<br \/>\n<!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, and a massive body can therefore act like a lens (a &#8220;gravitational lens&#8221;) to distort the image of an object seen behind it. Scientists first confirmed Einstein&#8217;s prediction quantitatively during the now famous total eclipse of 29 May 1919 by observing starlight bent by the mass of the Sun. Microlensing is the name given to a related phenomenon: the brightening of light from a star as a cosmic body, acting as a gravitational lens, passing fortuitously in front of it, the light then dimming to normal as the body moves beyond the line-of sight. About one hundred exoplanets have been discovered to date by the microlensing technique, ranging in masses from about fifty Jupiter-masses to less than a few Earth-masses.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-11-jupiter-sized-exoplanet-microlensing.html\">Go to Source<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: <\/p>\n<div>Phys.org provides the latest news on astronomy and space exploration.<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>SPACEPERIUM CORPS &#038; RESEARCH CONTRIBUTORS<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Please comment below with research and links for fellow members to conduct further research into this area.<br \/>\nYou must be registered and signed into SPACEPERIUM BLOG in order to leave your comment and get credited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter-sized exoplanet discovered through microlensing The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceperium-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}