{"id":115566,"date":"2020-11-07T04:53:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/new-research-closest-exoplanet-to-earth-could-host-life"},"modified":"2020-11-07T04:53:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T12:53:26","slug":"new-research-closest-exoplanet-to-earth-could-host-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/new-research-closest-exoplanet-to-earth-could-host-life","title":{"rendered":"New Research: Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Host Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-closest-exoplanet-to-earth-could-host-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s some bad news: Proxima Centauri tends to bombard any planets in its vicinity with a ferocious amount of X rays \u2014 Proxima b receives about 400 times the amount as Earth receives from its Sun.<\/p>\n<p>That leads to the question: \u201cIs there an atmosphere that protects the planet from these deadly rays?\u201d asked co-author Christophe Lovis, a researcher who worked on ESPRESSO, in the statement. Lovis hopes that the next generation of spectrographs \u2014 ESPRESSO\u2019s successor, \u201cRISTRETTO,\u201d is already in the works \u2014 could help us find the answer.<\/p>\n<p>For us to get a closer look at Proxima b however, Proxima Centauri is \u201conly\u201d 4.2 light-years from the Sun \u2014 meaning it would still take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/15403\/how-long-would-it-take-to-travel-to-the-nearest-star\/\">several thousand years<\/a> to get there using today\u2019s propulsion technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But there\u2019s some bad news: Proxima Centauri tends to bombard any planets in its vicinity with a ferocious amount of X rays \u2014 Proxima b receives about 400 times the amount as Earth receives from its Sun. That leads to the question: \u201cIs there an atmosphere that protects the planet from these deadly rays?\u201d asked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}