{"id":4197,"date":"2012-03-26T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2012-04-01T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:42:49","slug":"top-stories-health-care-fight-goes-to-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=4197","title":{"rendered":"Billions of Planets with Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Billions of Planets with Life? <\/strong>A new report by a group of European astronomers is extremely exciting.\u00a0 Working at  the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the scientists have  completed a survey of 102 M-dwarf stars and identified a total of nine  &#8220;super-Earths&#8221; &#8212; planets up to 10 times larger than Earth &#8212; circling  them. Two of the nine lie in their stars&#8217; habitable zones, the  Goldilocks region where temperatures are not too hot, not too cold, but  just right for liquid water and thus, conceivably, for the existence of  life.\u00a0 In the case of an M-dwarf, the star&#8217;s cooler, dimmer fires mean  that the Goldilocks zone is closer than it is around our hotter,  brighter sun, but the water principle remains the same. And if you do  the math for the entire galaxy, the recent survey means that tens of  billions of Goldilocks planets are peppered throughout the Milky Way,  with a hundred or so just in our solar system&#8217;s immediate neighborhood.\u00a0 For planet-hunters, that&#8217;s an especially tantalizing prospect.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/billions-planets-life-074000332.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/billions-planets-life-074000332.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billions of Planets with Life? A new report by a group of European astronomers is extremely exciting.\u00a0 Working at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the scientists have completed a survey of 102 M-dwarf stars and identified a total of nine &#8220;super-Earths&#8221; &#8212; planets up to 10 times larger than Earth &#8212; circling them. Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general_news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}