{"id":13175,"date":"2016-09-09T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13175"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T19:33:27","slug":"video-discussion-of-the-earth-scale-planet-found-orbiting-proxima-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13175","title":{"rendered":"Video: Discussion of the earth-scale planet found orbiting Proxima Centauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13077\" target=\"_d\">Earth scale planet in the habitable zone of our nearest star, Proxima Centauri<\/a>\u00a0was recent big news. Here is a video of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> panel discussion of the finding:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/weekly-lecture\/terrestrial-exoplanet-proxima-centauri\" target=\"_d\">A Terrestrial Exoplanet at Proxima Centauri | SETI Institute<\/a>. The video starts with Guillem Anglada, who led the group that made the discovery, giving an overview of\u00a0their finding.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_6eCF2FVcfo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is\u00a0the video caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Dr. Anglada will discuss the new paper he is first author in reporting the presence of a 1.3 Earth mass exoplanet in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri. This finding was reported in Nature on Thursday 25 Aug 2016.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v536\/n7617\/full\/nature19106.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v536\/n7617\/full\/nature19106.html\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgiEwiWiI61gIPPAhWEs5wKHUKkCMwo-B0\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/&#8230;<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dr. Anglada will particpate remotely, and Dr. Franck Marchis of the SETI Institute will host a local panel to discuss the implications of the finding. &#8220;Our little world will never seem the same again&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of an\u00a0Earth scale planet in the habitable zone of our nearest star, Proxima Centauri\u00a0was recent big news. Here is a video of a\u00a0SETI Institute panel discussion of the finding:\u00a0A Terrestrial Exoplanet at Proxima Centauri | SETI Institute. The video starts with Guillem Anglada, who led the group that made the discovery, giving an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Discussion of the earth-scale planet found orbiting Proxima Centauri<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-exoplanets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3qv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14083,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14083","url_meta":{"origin":13175,"position":0},"title":"Video: &#8220;A Journey to Alpha Centauri&#8221; &#8211; SETI institute seminar by Christian Marois","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr.\u00a0Christian Marois of the University of Victoria gave\u00a0a talk about the observation of an earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest known star to earth:\u00a0A Journey to Alpha Centauri | SETI Institute The Alpha Centauri star system is ideal to search for habitable planets by various observing techniques due to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/b5rInKFFdUs\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13077,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13077","url_meta":{"origin":13175,"position":1},"title":"ESO: Earth scale planet found in habitable zone of our nearest star, Proxima Centauri","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This ESO (European Southern Observatory) report\u00a0has had\u00a0probably the\u00a0most violated embargo of any ESO news. 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