{"id":3923750,"date":"2026-01-31T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/why-are-tatooine-planets-rare-general-relativity-explains-why-binary-star-systems-rarely-host-planets\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:03:14","slug":"why-are-tatooine-planets-rare-general-relativity-explains-why-binary-star-systems-rarely-host-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/why-are-tatooine-planets-rare-general-relativity-explains-why-binary-star-systems-rarely-host-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Tatooine planets rare? General relativity explains why binary star systems rarely host planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars\u2014even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-tatooine-planets-rare-general-binary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars\u2014even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/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-3923750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923750","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=3923750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}