{"id":3923474,"date":"2026-01-07T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/four-baby-planets-show-how-super-earths-and-sub-neptunes-form\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:08:23","slug":"four-baby-planets-show-how-super-earths-and-sub-neptunes-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/four-baby-planets-show-how-super-earths-and-sub-neptunes-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That&#8217;s been a source of frustration for planetary scientists, who can&#8217;t study them in as much detail as they&#8217;d like, leaving one big question: How did these planets form?<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-baby-planets-super-earths-neptunes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That&#8217;s been a source of frustration for planetary scientists, who can&#8217;t study them in as much detail as they&#8217;d like, leaving one big question: [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}