{"id":1427,"date":"2013-03-18T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:50:44","slug":"tiny-star-system-found-on-galactic-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/tiny-star-system-found-on-galactic-doorstep\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Star System Found On Galactic Doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanning the gap between large planets and small stars lies an astronomical gray area. This is the domain of brown dwarfs, dim stellar cinders glowing faintly in the darkness. And a binary pair of these stars has just been discovered only 6.5 light-years away, making it the third closest star system to our own.<\/p>\n<p>Star system WISE J104915.57-531906 was announced officially just a few days ago. The tiny star system, orbiting each other once every 25 years, with a separation of 3 AU, was discovered by Kevin Luhman, a researcher at Penn State\u2019s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds. It is, in fact, the closest star system to be discovered since Barnard\u2019s Star was found in 1916!<\/p>\n<p>Full article: <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/astronomy\/tiny-star-system-discovered-right-on-our-galactic-doorstep-130315.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/astronomy\/tiny-star-system-discovered-right-on-our-galactic-doorstep-130315.htm\">http:\/\/news.discover \u2026 -doorstep-130315.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanning the gap between large planets and small stars lies an astronomical gray area. This is the domain of brown dwarfs, dim stellar cinders glowing faintly in the darkness. And a binary pair of these stars has just been discovered only 6.5 light-years away, making it the third closest star system to our own. Star system WISE J104915.57-531906 was announced officially just a few days ago. The tiny star system, orbiting each other once every 25 years, with a separation of 3 AU, was discovered by Kevin Luhman, a researcher at Penn State\u2019s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds. It is, in fact, the closest star system to be discovered since Barnard\u2019s Star was found in 1916! Full article: http:\/\/news.discover \u2026 -doorstep-130315.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}