{"id":16717,"date":"2016-08-24T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2016-08-25T06:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T12:06:55","slug":"eso-discovers-earth-size-planet-in-habitable-zone-of-nearest-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/eso-discovers-earth-size-planet-in-habitable-zone-of-nearest-star\/","title":{"rendered":"ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"repubhubembed\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">A newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable, according to a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile, along with other telescopes around the world. The exoplanet is at a distance from its star that allows temperatures mild enough for liquid water to&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style>.rhexcerpt{display:none;}<\/style>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/view.act?p=MTcxOTA=&#038;c=MzgxMTYxMzA=&#038;fuid=MjMwOTE5NDE=&#038;showFirstImage=true&#038;showDate=true\" height=\"1500\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border:0;overflow-x:hidden;background:transparent;\" allowtransparency=\"yes\" scrolling=\"no\" data-size=\"6134\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE OR FIRST IMAGE, change \"showDate=true\" or \"showFirstImage=true\" to \"false\" --> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable, according to a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile, along with other telescopes around the world. The exoplanet is at a distance from its star that allows temperatures mild enough for liquid water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/eso-discovers-earth-size-planet-in-habitable-zone-of-nearest-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16718,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions\/16718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}