{"id":161523,"date":"2023-04-04T06:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T11:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/do-earth-like-exoplanets-have-magnetic-fields-far-off-radio-signal-is-promising-sign"},"modified":"2023-04-04T06:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T11:22:20","slug":"do-earth-like-exoplanets-have-magnetic-fields-far-off-radio-signal-is-promising-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/do-earth-like-exoplanets-have-magnetic-fields-far-off-radio-signal-is-promising-sign","title":{"rendered":"Do Earth-like exoplanets have magnetic fields? Far-off radio signal is promising sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-earth-like-exoplanets-have-magnetic-fields-far-off-radio-signal-is-promising-sign2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s magnetic field does more than keep everyone\u2019s compass needles pointed in the same direction. It also helps preserve Earth\u2019s sliver of life-sustaining atmosphere by deflecting high energy particles and plasma regularly blasted out of the sun. Researchers have now identified a prospective Earth-sized planet in another solar system as a prime candidate for also having a magnetic field\u2014YZ Ceti b, a rocky planet orbiting a star about 12 light-years away from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers Sebastian Pineda and Jackie Villadsen observed a repeating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radio+signal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radio signal<\/a> emanating from the star YZ Ceti using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, a radio telescope operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation\u2019s National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Research by Pineda and Villadsen to understand the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a> interactions between distant stars and their orbiting planets is supported by NSF. Their research was published today (April 3) in the journal Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe search for potentially habitable or life-bearing worlds in other solar systems depends in part on being able to determine if rocky, Earth-like exoplanets actually have magnetic fields,\u201d says NSF\u2019s Joe Pesce, program director for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. \u201cThis research shows not only that this particular rocky exoplanet likely has a magnetic field but provides a promising method to find more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth\u2019s magnetic field does more than keep everyone\u2019s compass needles pointed in the same direction. It also helps preserve Earth\u2019s sliver of life-sustaining atmosphere by deflecting high energy particles and plasma regularly blasted out of the sun. Researchers have now identified a prospective Earth-sized planet in another solar system as a prime candidate for also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161523","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}