{"id":1506,"date":"2015-10-05T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2020-10-22T23:01:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:01:43","slug":"where-to-look-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/05\/where-to-look-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to look for life?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UWAB astronomers Rory Barnes, Victoria Meadows, and research assistant Nicole Evans have <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/0004-637X\/814\/2\/91\">co-authored a paper<\/a> on how to prioritize targets in the search for life beyond our solar system. We know of over 3000 exoplanets now, and we&#8217;ll discover many more in the coming years. To quote Rory: &#8220;Now it&#8217;s as if Goldilocks has hundreds of bowls of porridge to choose from!&#8221; Which ones should we focus on precious telescope observing time on? A new metric called the &#8220;habitability index for transiting planets&#8221; ranks worlds according to a suite of properties that impact how life-friendly a planet is likely to be. Read more in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/05\/where-to-look-for-life-uw-astronomers-devise-habitability-index-to-guide-future-search\/\">UW News release<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWAB astronomers Rory Barnes, Victoria Meadows, and research assistant Nicole Evans have co-authored a paper on how to prioritize targets&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":[32,33],"tags":[200,65,54],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"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=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}