{"id":89572,"date":"2019-04-16T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-have-found-potential-life-supporting-conditions-on-the-nearest-exoplanet"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:04:49","slug":"astronomers-have-found-potential-life-supporting-conditions-on-the-nearest-exoplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-have-found-potential-life-supporting-conditions-on-the-nearest-exoplanet","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Found Potential Life-Supporting Conditions on The Nearest Exoplanet"},"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\/GPNJi5kdels?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/130427\/habitable-terrestrial-exoplanet-confirmed-around-nearest-star\/\">August of 2016<\/a>, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced the discovery of an exoplanet in the neighboring system of Proxima Centauri. The news was greeted with considerable excitement, as this was the closest rocky planet to our Solar System that also orbited within its star\u2019s habitable zone.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, multiple studies have been conducted to determine if this planet could actually support life.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, most of the research so far has indicated that the likelihood of habitability are not good. Between Proxima Centauri\u2019s variability and the planet being tidally-locked with its star, life would have a hard time surviving there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/our-closest-neighbouring-star-has-a-planet-in-the-habitable-zone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August of 2016, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced the discovery of an exoplanet in the neighboring system of Proxima Centauri. The news was greeted with considerable excitement, as this was the closest rocky planet to our Solar System that also orbited within its star\u2019s habitable zone. Since then, multiple studies have [\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-89572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89572","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=89572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}