{"id":135104,"date":"2021-02-08T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=135104"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T21:36:50","slug":"super-earth-inspires-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/08\/super-earth-inspires-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;Super-Earth&rsquo; discovery inspires kids\u2019 animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_85537\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_2J5KCiTE3E?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Super Earth  TOI-561b\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Research out of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/homepage\/\">Institute for Astronomy<\/a> (<abbr>IfA<\/abbr>) is the focus of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2J5KCiTE3E&#038;feature=emb_title\">animated children\u2019s educational YouTube video<\/a>, but viewer beware, you may end with a really catchy tune stuck in your head.<\/p>\n<p>In January, <abbr>IfA<\/abbr> astronomers announced that they discovered a rocky planet known as a &ldquo;Super-Earth <abbr>TOI<\/abbr> 561b&rdquo; using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keckobservatory.org\/\">W. M. Keck Observatory<\/a> telescopes on Maunakea. The planet orbits the star TESS Object of Interest (<abbr>TOI<\/abbr>) 561, and has sparked interest around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kids Learning Tube&rdquo; recently posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2J5KCiTE3E&#038;feature=emb_title\">a YouTube video<\/a> explaining the Super-Earth <abbr>TOI<\/abbr> 561b and it received more than 100,000 views in less than a week. One of the scenes in the video shows a picture of the face of <strong>Lauren Weiss<\/strong>, the Beatrice Watson Parrent Postdoctoral Fellow at <abbr>IfA<\/abbr> and leader of the team that discovered the <abbr>TOI<\/abbr>-561 planetary system.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133661\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manoa-ifa-rocky-planet-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"rocky planet\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manoa-ifa-rocky-planet-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manoa-ifa-rocky-planet-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/manoa-ifa-rocky-planet.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist\u2019s rendition of <abbr>TOI<\/abbr>-561, one of the oldest, most metal-poor planetary systems discovered yet in the Milky Way galaxy. (Photo credit: W. M. Keck Observatory\/Adam Makarenko)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;It is an honor to have our work highlighted, though I was surprised to see my face,&rdquo; said Weiss. &ldquo;It&#8217;s educational and funny, and best of all, it exposes kids to science.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/11\/rocky-planet-discovered\/\">Rocky planet discovered around one of the galaxy\u2019s oldest stars<\/a>, January 11, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr>IfA<\/abbr> astronomers discovered <abbr>TOI<\/abbr> 561b in the Milky Way galaxy. By measuring the wobble of the star induced by the planet\u2019s gravity, they were able to infer that the planet has three times the mass of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The rocky planet orbiting <abbr>TOI<\/abbr>-561 is one of the oldest rocky planets yet discovered. Its existence shows that the universe has been forming rocky planets almost since its inception 14 billion years ago,&rdquo; said Weiss when the discovery was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery is an example of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa\u2019s goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=25\">Excellence in Research: Advancing the Research and Creative Work Enterprise<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\">2015&#8211;25 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids Learning Tube\u2019s animated children\u2019s video explaining the Super-Earth <abbr>TOI<\/abbr> 561b gets more than 100,000 views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1247,34,35,1467,1363,9,56],"class_list":["post-135104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-animation","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-manoa-research","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135104"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135117,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135104\/revisions\/135117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}