{"id":12550,"date":"2012-06-28T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2012-06-28T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:57:22","slug":"really-scary-thing-seen-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/really-scary-thing-seen-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Really scary thing seen in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is like an episode of Dr. Who.  A star erupted and vaporized the atmosphere of a nearby planet. Holy crap.  <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2012\/23\/\">Details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JUNE 28, 2012: An international team of astronomers using data from the NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond the solar system. The scientists conclude that the atmospheric variations occurred in response to a powerful eruption on the planet&#8217;s host star, an event observed by NASA&#8217;s Swift satellite. This artist&#8217;s rendering illustrates the evaporation of exoplanet HD 189733b&#8217;s atmosphere in response to the powerful eruption from its host star on Sept. 7, 2011. Hubble detected the escaping gases, and Swift caught the stellar flare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoa.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________&#8211;<br \/>\nphoto of outer space by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/astroporn\/6016601891\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\">write_adam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is like an episode of Dr. Who. A star erupted and vaporized the atmosphere of a nearby planet. Holy crap. Details: JUNE 28, 2012: An international team of astronomers using data from the NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/really-scary-thing-seen-in-space\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Really scary thing seen in space<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191,2013],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3gq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}