{"id":76490,"date":"2018-03-03T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-nearby-planet-thought-to-host-life-was-just-blasted-with-radiation"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:05:28","slug":"a-nearby-planet-thought-to-host-life-was-just-blasted-with-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-nearby-planet-thought-to-host-life-was-just-blasted-with-radiation","title":{"rendered":"A Nearby Planet Thought to Host Life Was Just Blasted With Radiation"},"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\/eV8CY6tjQuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since its discovery in 2016, the exoplanet Proxima b has been one of our most promising candidates for extraterrestrial life. Recent news that a powerful solar flare blasted the planet with radiation in March 2017 may have dashed those hopes of habitability.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, when scientists confirmed the discovery of Proxima b, a potentially habitable, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/eso-confirms-earth-sized-planet-found-around-the-closest-star-to-earth-proxima-centauri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth-sized planet<\/a> orbiting the star Proxima Centauri, it was cause for astrobiological celebration. Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to our solar system \u2014 just 4.24 light-years away \u2014 so, in the search for extraterrestrial life, we\u2019d found a promising candidate in our cosmic backyard.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/proxima-b-blasted-radiation\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/proxima-b-blasted-radiation\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its discovery in 2016, the exoplanet Proxima b has been one of our most promising candidates for extraterrestrial life. Recent news that a powerful solar flare blasted the planet with radiation in March 2017 may have dashed those hopes of habitability. In 2016, when scientists confirmed the discovery of Proxima b, a potentially habitable, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76490","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=76490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76597,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76490\/revisions\/76597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}