{"id":85567,"date":"2020-06-01T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15725"},"modified":"2020-06-01T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:48:15","slug":"proxima-centauri-b-confirmed-as-nearest-earth-sized-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/proxima-centauri-b-confirmed-as-nearest-earth-sized-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Proxima Centauri b confirmed as nearest Earth Sized Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Scientists have confirmed the existence of Proxima Centauri b as an Earth-sized planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Proxima Centauri b is an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the star Proxima Centauri.<\/li><li>It is located approximately 4.2 light-years from Earth making it the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Proxima Centauri:<\/strong>It is the red dwarf star closest to the Sun lying just four light years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus.<\/li><li><strong>Exoplanet<\/strong>: It is a planet outside the Solar System.The first confirmation of detection of exoplanet occurred in 1992.<\/li><li><strong>Habitable Zone(Goldilocks zone): <\/strong>It is the area around a star where it is not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface of surrounding planets.Our Earth is in the Sun\u2019s Goldilocks zone.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Scientists have confirmed the existence of Proxima Centauri b as an Earth-sized planet. Facts: Proxima Centauri b is an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the star Proxima Centauri. It is located approximately 4.2 light-years from Earth making it the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System. Additional Facts: Proxima Centauri:It is the red&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/proxima-centauri-b-confirmed-as-nearest-earth-sized-planet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proxima Centauri b confirmed as nearest Earth Sized Planet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738,2122],"tags":[2361,2941],"class_list":["post-85567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous","tag-exoplanet","tag-proxima-centaur-b","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85567","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=85567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}