{"id":606278,"date":"2019-04-15T07:49:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f74b387e089e01c1d4c715b223545fe6"},"modified":"2019-04-15T07:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:49:54","slug":"breezing-through-the-space-environment-of-barnards-star-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=606278","title":{"rendered":"Breezing through the space environment of Barnard&#8217;s Star b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The closest exoplanet to us, if we include only single stars like the Sun, is the planet around Barnard&#8217;s Star, Barnard&#8217;s Star-b (&#8220;BSb&#8221;). (The planet Promixa Centauri-b is closer, but Proxima Cen is part of a triple-star system with Alpha and Beta Centauri, and understanding the evolutionary development of the planet is more complicated.) BSb orbits at a distance similar to that of Mercury around the Sun, but Barnard&#8217;s Star is a cool M-dwarf star and so despite the planet being close to the star it probably resides near the snow line \u2013 the distance where stellar irradiation is weak enough to allow volatile elements to condense onto the planet&#8217;s surface. This makes BSb an especially interesting planet and possibly a keystone for future progress understanding planet formation and atmospheric evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closest exoplanet to us, if we include only single stars like the Sun, is the planet around Barnard&#8217;s Star, Barnard&#8217;s Star-b (&#8220;BSb&#8221;). (The planet Promixa Centauri-b is closer, but Proxima Cen is part of a triple-star system with Alpha and Beta Centauri, and understanding the evolutionary development of the planet is more complicated.) BSb orbits at a distance similar to that of Mercury around the Sun, but Barnard&#8217;s Star is a cool M-dwarf star and so despite the planet being close to the star it probably resides near the snow line &ndash; the distance where stellar irradiation is weak enough to allow volatile elements to condense onto the planet&#8217;s surface. This makes BSb an especially interesting planet and possibly a keystone for future progress understanding planet formation and atmospheric evolution.<\/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-606278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606278","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=606278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606279,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606278\/revisions\/606279"}],"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=606278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}