{"id":159417,"date":"2026-10-28T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159417"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:00:10","slug":"chinese-astronomers-find-planets-that-somehow-avoided-death-by-red-giant-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159417","title":{"rendered":"Chinese astronomers find planets that somehow avoided death by red giant stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen a star like our sun grows old, it puffs up into a red giant that can gobble up its nearest planets.<br \/>\nBut Chinese astronomers say they have found three solar systems where planets should have been eaten this way yet somehow survived \u2013 a puzzle that could change how scientists picture Earth\u2019s distant future.<br \/>\nUsing Nasa\u2019s TESS space telescope, a team led by Qian Shengbang from Yunnan University showed that three Jupiter-like planets \u2013 each hugging an ageing star in the northern sky \u2013 had lived&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3372402\/chinese-astronomers-find-planets-somehow-avoided-death-red-giant-stars\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen a star like our sun grows old, it puffs up into a red giant that can gobble up its nearest planets. But Chinese&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}