{"id":59,"date":"2011-02-04T00:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T06:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2011-04-14T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:22:10","slug":"earth-like-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/2011\/02\/earth-like-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth-Like Planets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Space Bloggers!<\/p>\n<p>After my last post, Erin wrote in about NASA&#8217;s Kepler Mission, a space telescope that is searching for Earth-like planets in our galaxy. She heard they found one.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what? She&#8217;s right!<\/p>\n<p>Following the Earth around the sun like a friendly puppy dog, Kepler looks for planets in nearby star clusters &#8211; that is if you consider a span of 3,000 light years to be nearby!<\/p>\n<p>So far Kepler has found over 1000 possible planets, and confirmed that 15 definitely are planets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84\" title=\"Kepler-11: a sun like star around which six planets orbit.\" src=\"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Kepler-11_IntroShot-br.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Kepler-11_IntroShot-br.jpg 600w, http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Kepler-11_IntroShot-br-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: NASA\/Tim Pyle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not all!<\/p>\n<p>Just three days ago, NASA announced the discovery of 5 more possible planets; planets that are special for two reasons&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, they are about the same size as Earth, and<\/li>\n<li>Second,  they are in the &#8216;habitable zone&#8217; of their stars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That means that they get enough light and heat from their stars to form liquid water and maybe even  life.<\/p>\n<p>So kids, what do you think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is there life out there? Do we share our galactic neighborhood?? Will we one day be holding an intra-solar system potluck???<\/p>\n<p>Check in soon to see what your fellow Earth-kids have to say. Think up your own SpaceBlog nickname and sign on below. Leave a thought, fact, idea, or question for the cosmos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back soon with another SPLOG inspired by your comments; perhaps about the chances of life out there&#8211;in the great, distant, darkness of space&#8211;beyond our solar neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Space Bloggers! After my last post, Erin wrote in about NASA&#8217;s Kepler Mission, a space telescope that is searching for Earth-like planets in our galaxy. She heard they found one. And guess what? She&#8217;s right! Following the Earth around &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/2011\/02\/earth-like-planets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,17],"tags":[8,6],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kepler-mission","category-planets-2","category-nasa-missions","tag-kepler","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}