{"id":39389,"date":"2023-10-25T15:13:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39389"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:13:21","slug":"word-of-the-day-920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/10\/25\/word-of-the-day-920\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Synestia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s something new to look for in the heavens, and it\u2019s called a \u201csynestia,\u201d according to planetary scientists Simon Lock at Harvard University and Sarah Stewart at the University of California, Davis. A synestia, they propose, would be a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, formed as planet-sized objects smash into each other.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/news\/synestia-new-type-planetary-object\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Synestia, a New Type of Planetary Object<\/a>,&#8221; Andy Fell, <\/em><strong>UCDavis<\/strong><em>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/oct\/11\/afterglow-cataclysmic-collision-between-two-planets-seen-for-first-time?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Afterglow of cataclysmic collision between two planets seen for first time<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; <em><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a detailed analysis of the observations, the astronomers concluded that the blast of infrared radiation came from a hot new object or \u201csynestia\u201d created by the collision of two planets nearly as large as Neptune. Based on the infrared readings, the vast spinning object had a temperature of more than 700C for about three years. It will eventually cool and form a new planet around the star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synestia: There\u2019s something new to look for in the heavens, and it\u2019s called a \u201csynestia,\u201d according to planetary scientists Simon Lock at Harvard University and Sarah Stewart at the University of California, Davis. A synestia, they propose, would be a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, formed as \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/10\/25\/word-of-the-day-920\/\"> 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-39389","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\/39389","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=39389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39390,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39389\/revisions\/39390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}