{"id":2041,"date":"2008-11-15T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T03:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2008-11-15T00:07:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T03:07:41","slug":"planet-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Planet 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">U<\/span>S astronomers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/formalhaut.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/formalhaut-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A planet. At. Formalhaut. Warp. Speed.\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2042\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/formalhaut-150x120.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/formalhaut-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/formalhaut.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> have made the first photo of an exoplanet that makes it rounds <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/2300-11397_3-6247700-1.html?tag=mncol\">around the star Formalhaut<\/a>. It took a couple of years (and a lot of patience) to actually confirm the planet though. Additionally, another team of astronomers made a picture of 2 planets orbiting a star called HR8799 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/13\/AR2008111302267.html?hpid=topnews\">Washington Post report<\/a>). Generally, it seems. it was a good week for astronomy.\n<\/p>\n<p>New Scientist had an article about a theory that the Earth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20026821.200-is-earth-at-the-heart-of-a-giant-cosmic-void.html?full=true&#038;print=true\">might be in the center of a void<\/a>: at the heart of the discussion is the 1998 discovery that some galaxies seem to have been racing away from us instead of slowing down. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the_void_it_hurts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the_void_it_hurts-150x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Is the Earth at the heart of a void?\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2043\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the_void_it_hurts-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the_void_it_hurts-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the_void_it_hurts.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This discovery is currently explained by introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_Energy\">&#8216;dark energy&#8217;<\/a>, the energy that tends to accelerate the rate of expansion of the universe. The new theory proposes that our universe (the Milky Way) is surrounded by a &#8216;bubble&#8217; that causes photons to lose energy but gaining energy while leaving this bubble.\n<\/p>\n<p>I also read that India has succesfully <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7730157.stm\">landed a probe on the moon<\/a>. For the next couple of weeks, the probe (&#8216;Chandrayaan 1&#8217;), will measure the composition of the moon&#8217;s thin atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US astronomers have made the first photo of an exoplanet that makes it rounds around the star Formalhaut. It took a couple of years (and a lot of patience) to actually confirm the planet though. Additionally, another team of astronomers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2041\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11],"tags":[128,202,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}