{"id":34150,"date":"2018-10-30T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34150"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:36:09","slug":"proxima-centauri-may-host-planetary-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/proxima-centauri-may-host-planetary-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Proxima Centauri may host planetary system:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj3her4xavXAhUlSo8KHdCYAJcQqOcBCCUwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fsci-tech%2Fscience%2Fproxima-centauri-may-host-planetary-system%2Farticle19993333.ece&amp;usg=AOvVaw21jaU65dYrIeQGk1FOkKMO\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proxima Centauri may host planetary system<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have detected dust belts around Proxima Centauri, a finding that indicates the presence of an elaborate planetary system hosted by the closest star to the solar system.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New observations by the <\/span><b>Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in Chile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> revealed the glow coming from cold dust in a region between one to four times as far from Proxima Centauri as the Earth is from the Sun.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The data also hints at the presence of an even cooler outer dust belt and may indicate the presence of a system of planets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These structures are similar to larger belts in the solar system and are also expected to be made from particles of rock and ice that failed to form planets.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About Proxima Centauri:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a faint red dwarf lying just four light years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is orbited by the Earth-sized temperate world Proxima b, discovered in 2016 and the closest exoplanet to the solar system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new ALMA observations reveal emission from clouds of cold cosmic dust surrounding the star.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proxima Centauri may host planetary system: Context: Scientists have detected dust belts around Proxima Centauri, a finding that indicates the presence of an elaborate planetary system hosted by the closest star to the solar system. Introduction: New observations by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in Chile revealed the glow coming from cold dust&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/proxima-centauri-may-host-planetary-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proxima Centauri may host planetary system:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704667257},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}