{"id":82843,"date":"2018-09-20T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/theres-a-planet-exactly-where-star-trek-said-vulcan-should-be"},"modified":"2018-09-20T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:43:19","slug":"theres-a-planet-exactly-where-star-trek-said-vulcan-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/theres-a-planet-exactly-where-star-trek-said-vulcan-should-be","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a planet exactly where Star Trek said Vulcan should be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-planet-exactly-where-star-trek-said-vulcan-should-be.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicists just found a planet orbiting the star HD 26965, 16 light years away from Earth. Finding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tags\/exoplanets\">exoplanets<\/a> is always fun, and the fact that this one is in the star\u2019s habitable zone (where liquid water could exist on its surface) is a bonus. But that\u2019s not why people are particularly psyched about the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>See, HD 26965 also goes by 40 Eridani A\u2014the star orbited by Spock\u2019s homeworld in <em>Star Trek<\/em>. That means <em>they found Vulcan.<\/em> Ok, fine, they found a real-world analog to a completely fictional world, but you can\u2019t blame <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans for being excited.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/planet-vulcan-star-trek-eridani\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/planet-vulcan-star-trek-eridani<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicists just found a planet orbiting the star HD 26965, 16 light years away from Earth. Finding exoplanets is always fun, and the fact that this one is in the star\u2019s habitable zone (where liquid water could exist on its surface) is a bonus. But that\u2019s not why people are particularly psyched about the announcement. [\u2026]<\/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-82843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82843","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=82843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}