{"id":1478,"date":"2017-03-29T18:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2020-10-22T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:36:55","slug":"proxima-centauri-b-a-world-of-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/29\/proxima-centauri-b-a-world-of-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Proxima Centauri b: A World of Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In August 2016 a planet was discovered orbiting  the closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri. Not only is the planet,  Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet, it is also likely to have a  similar mass as Earth, and receive about as much starlight as Earth.  These features raise the possibility that the planet may host life! Join  renowned exoplanet researchers for a discussion of the discovery, the  planet&#8217;s potential to support life, and future plans to explore the  planet, including visits by human spacecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Guillem Anglada-Escude<\/strong>, lead discoverer of the planet<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vikki Meadows<\/strong>, University of Washington astrobiology professor and Virtual Planetary Laboratory PI<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rory Barnes<\/strong>, University of Washington astrobiology professor and Virtual Planetary Laboratory investigator<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Olivier Guyon, <\/strong>University of Arizona professor and Project Scientist for the Subaru Telescope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/proxima-centauri-b-a-world-of-possibilities-tickets-33294558922#\">RSVP here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2016 a planet was discovered orbiting the closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri. Not only is the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[189,190,65,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}