{"id":38350,"date":"2023-02-15T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38350"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:00:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/02\/15\/word-of-the-day-866\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Red clump star<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While [exoplanet] 8 Ursae Minoris b was discovered in 2015, follow-up work by [Marc Hon of the University of Hawaii] and his colleagues shows that the host star had already been a red giant and is now shrinking, a phase in which it is called a red clump star. It would have expanded to reach about 70 per cent of the distance between Earth and the sun, which should have consumed 8 Ursae Minoris b in the process. \u201cThis planet is in a forbidden place,\u201d he says.<em> [&#8220;\u2018<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2356529-forbidden-planet-somehow-escaped-consumption-by-its-dying-host-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbidden\u2019 planet somehow escaped consumption by its dying host star<\/a>,<em>&#8221; Jonathan O&#8217;Callaghan, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (4 February 2023, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Captured since the red giant phase? Alien artifact? Splotch on the telescope&#8217;s sensors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red clump star: While [exoplanet] 8 Ursae Minoris b was discovered in 2015, follow-up work by [Marc Hon of the University of Hawaii] and his colleagues shows that the host star had already been a red giant and is now shrinking, a phase in which it is called a red \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/02\/15\/word-of-the-day-866\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38351,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38350\/revisions\/38351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}