{"id":155006,"date":"2023-01-09T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/two-potentially-earth-like-planets-found-16-light-years-away"},"modified":"2023-01-09T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:23:33","slug":"two-potentially-earth-like-planets-found-16-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/two-potentially-earth-like-planets-found-16-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Two potentially Earth-like planets found 16 light years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-potentially-earth-like-planets-found-16-light-years-away.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An international team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias (IAC), Spain, has found two planets with Earth-like masses in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, just 16 light years from our own Solar System.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artist\u2019s impression of two Earth-mass planets orbiting the star GJ 1002. Credit: Alejandro Su\u00e1rez Mascare\u00f1o and In\u00e9s Bonet (IAC) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNature seems bent on showing us that Earth-like planets are very common,\u201d explains Alejandro Su\u00e1rez Mascare\u00f1o, an IAC researcher, first author of a study that appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/component\/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051\/0004-6361\/202244991\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/a>. \u201cWith these two, we now know seven in planetary systems quite near to the Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias (IAC), Spain, has found two planets with Earth-like masses in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, just 16 light years from our own Solar System. Artist\u2019s impression of two Earth-mass planets orbiting the star GJ 1002. Credit: Alejandro Su\u00e1rez Mascare\u00f1o [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155006","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\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}