{"id":29311,"date":"2016-08-24T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/eso-confirms-the-discovery-of-earths-closest-potentially-habitable-neighbour"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:54:31","slug":"eso-confirms-the-discovery-of-earths-closest-potentially-habitable-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/eso-confirms-the-discovery-of-earths-closest-potentially-habitable-neighbour","title":{"rendered":"ESO confirms the discovery of Earth\u2019s closest potentially habitable neighbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lysJduOqads?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have today confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting the sun\u2019s nearest neighbour, Proxima Centauri, which has the potential to host liquid water, and therefore life.<\/p>\n<p>The exoplanet in question, Proxima b, is thought to be the Earth\u2019s closest potentially habitable neighbour, making this discovery a major landmark in humanity\u2019s exploration of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve found an exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri. It\u2019s the nearest exoplanet we will ever find, because it\u2019s the nearest star to the Sun, and we are very excited about it,\u201d explained a delighted Dr Guillem Anglada-Escud\u00e9, from the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London, who participated in the epic research project.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/factor-tech.com\/space\/23997-eso-confirms-the-discovery-of-earths-closest-potentially-habitable-neighbour\/\">http:\/\/factor-tech.com\/space\/23997-eso-confirms-the-discover...neighbour\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have today confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting the sun\u2019s nearest neighbour, Proxima Centauri, which has the potential to host liquid water, and therefore life. The exoplanet in question, Proxima b, is thought to be the Earth\u2019s closest potentially habitable neighbour, making this discovery a major landmark in humanity\u2019s exploration of the universe. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29311","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60655,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29311\/revisions\/60655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}