{"id":165733,"date":"2023-06-14T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T08:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/elon-musk-expresses-interest-in-planet-four-light-years-away"},"modified":"2023-06-14T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T08:28:06","slug":"elon-musk-expresses-interest-in-planet-four-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/elon-musk-expresses-interest-in-planet-four-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Expresses Interest in Planet Four Light-Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-expresses-interest-in-planet-four-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t even <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-team-humanity-mars-decade-space\" class=\"\">made it to Mars<\/a> yet, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk\u2019s wandering eye is already on a new planet \u2014 this one completely outside our star system.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Musk seemed to ideate on the prospect of visiting the <em>relatively<\/em> nearby Promixa Centauri B, an exoplanet that sits a little over four light-years away in <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/astronomers-new-planet-nearest-star\" class=\"\">Alpha Centauri<\/a>, the star system that James Cameron\u2019s \u201cAvatar\u201d franchise is based on. First discovered back in 2016, Proxima B is believed to be particularly viable as a potentially life-supporting world, and it looks like Musk is paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPractically next door,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1668046721744527362\" class=\"\">the Twitter owner tweeted on Sunday<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAstronomers\/status\/1667954599196790785\" class=\"\">in response to a tweet<\/a> featuring a <em>Space Academy<\/em> blog post about the tantalizing planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He hasn\u2019t even made it to Mars yet, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk\u2019s wandering eye is already on a new planet \u2014 this one completely outside our star system. Over the weekend, Musk seemed to ideate on the prospect of visiting the relatively nearby Promixa Centauri B, an exoplanet that sits a little over four [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165733","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}