{"id":21455,"date":"2013-01-11T04:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T09:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=21455"},"modified":"2013-01-11T04:05:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T09:05:57","slug":"ut-alumnus-contributes-to-discovery-of-planet-outside-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_11_2013\/ut-alumnus-contributes-to-discovery-of-planet-outside-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"UT alumnus contributes to discovery of planet outside solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_21484\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Wisniewski-screen-shot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21484\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Wisniewski-screen-shot.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wisniewski screen shot\" width=\"289\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Wisniewski-screen-shot.png 289w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Wisniewski-screen-shot-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wisniewski<\/p><\/div>An international team of astronomers recently discovered a planet about 13 times the mass of Jupiter, one of only several outside our solar system to be digitally imaged.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>One of the members of the team, Dr. John Wisniewski, received both his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees at The University of Toledo. He is an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>He is part of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru, or SEEDS Project, headed by Motohide Tamura, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The discovery paper was written by Dr. Joseph Carson of the College of Charleston and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Wisniewski will analyze follow-up observations of the planetary system, which is located around the massive star Kappa Andromedae. Wisniewski said his training at UT will help him as he searches for more on this exoplanet \u2014 a planet outside the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the follow-up work I\u2019m doing was predicated on training I received using the Ritter telescope,\u201d Wisniewski said. \u201cThe Ritter Observatory is excellent training ground for undergraduates and graduates at UT.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Wisniewski, who received two degrees from UT, is a member of an international team of astronomers that discovered a huge planet outside the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,39,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}