{"id":18335,"date":"2015-10-11T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T01:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/close-cousins-comparison-between-earth-and-kepler-452b-and-their-host-stars"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:02:01","slug":"close-cousins-comparison-between-earth-and-kepler-452b-and-their-host-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/close-cousins-comparison-between-earth-and-kepler-452b-and-their-host-stars","title":{"rendered":"Close cousins? Comparison between Earth and Kepler-452b and their host stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/close-cousins-comparison-between-earth-and-kepler-452b-and-their-host-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists using data from NASA\u2019s Kepler mission have confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. The habitable zone is the region around a star where temperatures are just right for water to exist in its liquid form.<\/p>\n<p>The artistic concept compares Earth (left) to the new planet, called Kepler-452b, which is about 60 percent larger. The illustration represents one possible appearance for Kepler-452b \u2014 scientists do not know whether the planet has oceans and continents like Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Both planets orbit a G2-type star of about the same temperature; however, the star hosting Kepler-452b is 6 billion years old, 1.5 billion years older than our sun. As stars age, they become larger, hotter and brighter, as represented in the illustration. Kepler-452b\u2019s star appears a bit larger and brighter.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA Ames\/JPL-Caltech\/T. Pyle &amp; W. Stenzel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASAsKeplerMission\/photos\/a.119497381432088.11101.118399218208571\/879269142121571\/?type=3\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists using data from NASA\u2019s Kepler mission have confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. The habitable zone is the region around a star where temperatures are just right for water to exist in its liquid form. The artistic concept compares Earth (left) to the new planet, called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51390,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18335\/revisions\/51390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}