{"id":159910,"date":"2016-03-30T08:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=159910"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T07:00:02","slug":"next-generation-planet-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/159910-next-generation-planet-finder.html","title":{"rendered":"Next-generation planet finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.upenn.edu\/news\/penn-astronomer-helping-build-next-generation-planet-finder\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NASA and the National Science Foundation are building<\/strong><\/a> a $10-million instrument to detect planets orbiting stars outside our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The work will guide NASA\u2019s efforts towards finding evidence of life outside our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The instrument, named NEID, will be built during the next three years and then installed on the WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>NEID will detect planets by the gravitational tug they exert on their stars, a phenomenon known as \u201cthe wobble effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The device they\u2019re crafting is a giant spectrograph, which will take light and measure its various components.<\/p>\n<p>The team will look for features in the data that correspond to absorption by chemical elements present in the star\u2019s photosphere &#8211; measuring the movement of these features will tell researchers about the magnitude of the star\u2019s wobble, which is related to the mass of the planet revolving around that star.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on NASA<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/156953-nasa-to-build-a-quieter-supersonic-passenger-jet.html\">NASA to build a quieter supersonic passenger jet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/150151-the-best-nasa-pictures-this-year.html\">The best Nasa pictures this year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/145087-nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-the-kuiper-belt-and-beyond.html\">NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft \u2013 the Kuiper Belt and beyond<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is building a $10-million instrument to detect planets orbiting stars outside our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,761],"class_list":["post-159910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159922,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159910\/revisions\/159922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}