{"id":164990,"date":"2023-06-02T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/possible-life-supporting-planet-found-orbiting-dying-star"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T03:01:12","slug":"possible-life-supporting-planet-found-orbiting-dying-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/possible-life-supporting-planet-found-orbiting-dying-star","title":{"rendered":"Possible Life-Supporting Planet Found Orbiting Dying Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/possible-life-supporting-planet-found-orbiting-dying-star.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The existence of life on planets orbiting stars akin to our sun doesn\u2019t necessarily require these stars to be exceptionally powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered a possible \u201cgiant planet\u201d orbiting a dying star, which could potentially support life in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from University College London made the \u201cstartling\u201d discovery while studying a white dwarf, the glowing remnants of a star that exhausted its hydrogen fuel. Located about 117 light-years away, this star, known as WD1054-226, features a ring of planetary debris in its habitable zone, or Goldilocks zone, where temperatures might allow liquid water to exist on a planet\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The existence of life on planets orbiting stars akin to our sun doesn\u2019t necessarily require these stars to be exceptionally powerful. Scientists have uncovered a possible \u201cgiant planet\u201d orbiting a dying star, which could potentially support life in the future. Researchers from University College London made the \u201cstartling\u201d discovery while studying a white dwarf, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164990","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165266,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164990\/revisions\/165266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}