{"id":25268,"date":"2016-05-02T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-tiny-star-is-now-the-best-place-to-hunt-for-alien-life"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:25:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:25:57","slug":"this-tiny-star-is-now-the-best-place-to-hunt-for-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-tiny-star-is-now-the-best-place-to-hunt-for-alien-life","title":{"rendered":"This Tiny Star Is Now the Best Place to Hunt for Alien Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-tiny-star-is-now-the-best-place-to-hunt-for-alien-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a few years, powerful new telescopes will usher in a <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/heres-how-planet-hunters-are-going-to-find-the-next-ear-1703491062\">search for habitable worlds outside our solar system<\/a>. And TRAPPIST-1\u2014a dim, tepid star just a smidge larger than Jupiter\u2014is one of the first places we\u2019ll look. It\u2019s only forty light years away, and it\u2019s home to several promising, Earth-sized exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p>Three siblings, described today in the journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature17448\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nature<\/a><\/em>, are the first exoplanets ever discovered around an \u201cultracool dwarf\u201d star. And they\u2019re a jackpot when it comes to the search for alien life. Each planet is similar in size to Earth or Venus and probably rocky. The planets all skirt the edge of the so-called habitable zone. Finally, these potential Earth twins are so close to us that we can begin studying their atmospheres right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is basically a paradigm shift,\u201d study co-author Julien de Wit told Gizmodo. \u201cIf these planets have atmospheres, they really are the best places to look for life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-tiny-star-is-now-the-best-place-to-hunt-for-alien-1774123332\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-tiny-star-is-now-the-best-place-to-h...1774123332<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few years, powerful new telescopes will usher in a search for habitable worlds outside our solar system. And TRAPPIST-1\u2014a dim, tepid star just a smidge larger than Jupiter\u2014is one of the first places we\u2019ll look. It\u2019s only forty light years away, and it\u2019s home to several promising, Earth-sized exoplanets. Three siblings, described today [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25268","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61914,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25268\/revisions\/61914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}