{"id":220297,"date":"2025-08-17T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/planet-discovered-orbiting-the-alpha-centauri-system-the-closest-star-system-to-earth"},"modified":"2025-08-17T11:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:17:51","slug":"planet-discovered-orbiting-the-alpha-centauri-system-the-closest-star-system-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/planet-discovered-orbiting-the-alpha-centauri-system-the-closest-star-system-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Planet discovered orbiting the Alpha Centauri System, the closest star system to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planet-discovered-orbiting-the-alpha-centauri-system-the-closest-star-system-to-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers using NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220297","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}