{"id":3927522,"date":"2026-08-17T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mega-earth-gj-523b-is-23-times-as-massive-as-our-planet-but-only-2-5-times-as-wide\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:00:15","slug":"mega-earth-gj-523b-is-23-times-as-massive-as-our-planet-but-only-2-5-times-as-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mega-earth-gj-523b-is-23-times-as-massive-as-our-planet-but-only-2-5-times-as-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega-Earth GJ 523b is 23 times as massive as our planet\u2014but only 2.5 times as wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It&#8217;s nearly 170 million years old. It&#8217;s more than 2.5 times the size of Earth. And it&#8217;s the first exoplanet discovered and cataloged by researchers with the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research (WiCOR).<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-mega-earth-gj-523b-massive.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nearly 170 million years old. It&#8217;s more than 2.5 times the size of Earth. And it&#8217;s the first exoplanet discovered and cataloged by researchers with the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research (WiCOR). <\/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-3927522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}