{"id":92428,"date":"2019-06-21T00:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/two-potentially-life-friendly-planets-found-orbiting-a-nearby-star"},"modified":"2019-06-21T00:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:23:48","slug":"two-potentially-life-friendly-planets-found-orbiting-a-nearby-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/two-potentially-life-friendly-planets-found-orbiting-a-nearby-star","title":{"rendered":"Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-potentially-life-friendly-planets-found-orbiting-a-nearby-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Teegarden\u2019s planets are potentially habitable,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/administration\/membership\/individual\/9022\/\">Ignasi Ribas<\/a> of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, a member of the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/component\/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051\/0004-6361\/201935460\">reporting the planets today<\/a> in the journal <i>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/i>. \u201cWe will eventually see if they are actually habitable and, perhaps, even inhabited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two worlds orbit a star so faint that it wasn\u2019t even spotted until 2003, when NASA astrophysicist Bonnard Teegarden was mining astronomical data sets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/goddard\/news\/topstory\/2003\/0520newstar.html\">and looking for dim, nearby dwarf stars<\/a> that had so far evaded detection.<\/p>\n<p>Teegarden\u2019s star is a stellar runt that\u2019s barely 9 percent of the sun\u2019s mass. It\u2019s known as an ultra-cool M dwarf, and it emits most of its light in the infrared\u2014just like the star TRAPPIST-1, which hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/02\/seven-planets-not-aliens-nasa-earth-space-science\/\">seven known rocky planets<\/a>. But Teegarden\u2019s star is just a third as far from Earth as the TRAPPIST-1 system, which makes it ideal for further characterization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBoth Teegarden\u2019s planets are potentially habitable,\u201d says Ignasi Ribas of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, a member of the team reporting the planets today in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics. \u201cWe will eventually see if they are actually habitable and, perhaps, even inhabited.\u201d The two worlds orbit a star so faint that it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92428","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}