{"id":433835,"date":"2026-05-18T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433835\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:39:14","slug":"astronomers-stunned-billions-of-tatooine-planets-may-actually-exist-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433835\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers stunned: billions of \u201cTatooine\u201d planets may actually exist in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tAstronomers stunned: billions of \u201cTatooine\u201d planets may actually exist in space &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>May 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            4 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1920\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/astronomers-stunned-billions-of-tatooine-planets-may-actually-exist-in-space.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Artist&#8217;s impression of a binary star system, as seen from the surface of an orbiting exoplanet. \u00a9 NRAO, AUI, NSF, S. Dagnello<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronomers stunned: billions of \u201cTatooine\u201d planets may actually exist in space &#8211; Futura-Sciences May 18, 2026 4 min&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-433835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}