{"id":26631,"date":"2025-08-27T04:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26631"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:56:26","slug":"26631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26631","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2508\/Wispit4b_eso_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>That yellow spot &#8212; what is it? It&#8217;s a young planet outside our Solar System. The featured image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene much like our own Solar System&#8217;s birth, some 4.5 billion years ago. Although we can&#8217;t look into the past and see Earth&#8217;s formation directly, telescopes let us watch similar processes unfolding around distant stars. At the center of this frame lies a young Sun-like star, hidden behind a coronagraph that blocks its bright glare. Surrounding the star is a bright, dusty protoplanetary disk &#8212; the raw material of planets. Gaps and concentric rings mark where a newborn world is gathering gas and dust under its gravity, clearing the way as it orbits the star. Although astronomers have imaged disk-embedded planets before, this is the first-ever observation of an exoplanet actively carving a gap within a disk &#8212; the earliest direct glimpse of planetary sculpting in action. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250827.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That yellow spot &#8212; what is it? It&#8217;s a young planet outside our Solar System. The featured image from the Very Large Telescope in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26631\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-26631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26632,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26631\/revisions\/26632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}