{"id":29351,"date":"2016-08-25T00:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T07:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/eso-confirms-earth-sized-planet-found-around-the-closest-star-to-earth-proxima-centauri"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:20:59","slug":"eso-confirms-earth-sized-planet-found-around-the-closest-star-to-earth-proxima-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/eso-confirms-earth-sized-planet-found-around-the-closest-star-to-earth-proxima-centauri","title":{"rendered":"ESO Confirms: Earth-Sized Planet Found Around the Closest Star to Earth, Proxima Centauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eso-confirms-earth-sized-planet-found-around-the-closest-star-to-earth-proxima-centauri.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new planet that bears striking similarities to our own planet prompts remarkable inroad into the study of space. This also brings a new area to search for the possibility of extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013, the first signs of a planet over four light-years from our solar system were spotted. Since then, the scientific community has been working to gather more information via further observations, primarily with the help of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\">European Southern Observatory<\/a> (ESO).<\/p>\n<p>To study and observe the red dwarf star, which was named Proxima Centauri, the Pale Red Dot campaign was started. Scientists used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/sci\/facilities\/lasilla\/instruments\/harps.html\" target=\"_blank\">HARPS spectograph<\/a> on the ESO\u2019s 3.6 meter telescope at La Silla in Chile. Combined with data gathered from other telescopes around the world, astronomers, led by Guillem Anglada-Escud\u00e9, observed a wobbling star that was apparently caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/eso-confirms-earth-sized-planet-found-around-the-closest-star-to-earth-proxima-centauri\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/eso-confirms-earth-sized-planet-found-ar...-centauri\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new planet that bears striking similarities to our own planet prompts remarkable inroad into the study of space. This also brings a new area to search for the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Back in 2013, the first signs of a planet over four light-years from our solar system were spotted. Since then, the scientific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66442,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351\/revisions\/66442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}