{"id":45992,"date":"2026-10-07T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45992"},"modified":"2026-10-07T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:13:18","slug":"boop-boop-boop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/07\/boop-boop-boop\/","title":{"rendered":"Boop Boop Boop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be what half of Americans were waiting for, but it remains &#8230; <em>very cool<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Astronomers say they have directly detected the first-ever radio emission from a planet outside the solar system. The signal, however, is evidence of a colossal magnetic field \u2014 not intelligent life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know radio signals are associated with searches for extraterrestrial intelligence,\u201d said Edo Berger, a professor of astronomy at Harvard University. \u201cBut this is something very different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, described in a new paper awaiting publication in a peer-reviewed journal, traces repeating radio bursts that appear to come from the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b, located\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/03\/31\/world\/bill-nye-light-year-scn\">63 light-years from Earth<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a short distance, astronomically speaking. The gas giant, about 12 times the mass of Jupiter, is one of three planets orbiting a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stellarcatalog.com\/stars\/beta-pictoris\">young star<\/a>\u00a0that is 1.75 times as massive as the sun.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimt.com\/news\/radio-signal-detected-for-the-first-time-from-a-planet-outside-our-solar-system\/article_61e21a41-209e-593d-8b07-0ea53defdb25.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>KIMT3 News<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be what half of Americans were waiting for, but it remains &#8230; very cool. Astronomers say they have directly detected the first-ever radio emission from a planet outside the solar system. The signal, however, is evidence of a colossal magnetic field \u2014 not intelligent life. \u201cI know \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/07\/boop-boop-boop\/\"> 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45992","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=45992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45993,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45992\/revisions\/45993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}