{"id":568475,"date":"2019-01-17T07:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f5437db9ff45cd6aac3176dff63afde1"},"modified":"2019-01-17T07:10:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:10:01","slug":"new-paper-indicates-potential-for-primitive-life-on-icy-barnard-b-super-earth-planet-if-geothermal-activity-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=568475","title":{"rendered":"New paper indicates potential for primitive life on icy Barnard b super-earth planet if geothermal activity exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barnard b (or GJ 699 b) is a recently discovered Super-Earth planet orbiting Barnard&#8217;s Star, making it the second nearest star system to the Earth. Although likely cold (-170 degrees centigrade), it could still have the potential to harbor primitive life if it has a large, hot iron\/nickel core and enhanced geothermal activity. That was a conclusion announced by Villanova University Astrophysicists Edward Guinan and Scott Engle at a January 10 press conference held at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomy Society (AAS) in Seattle, WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnard b (or GJ 699 b) is a recently discovered Super-Earth planet orbiting Barnard&#8217;s Star, making it the second nearest star system to the Earth. Although likely cold (-170 degrees centigrade), it could still have the potential to harbor primitive li&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568476,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568475\/revisions\/568476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}