{"id":3695,"date":"2024-10-07T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T14:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T09:27:01","slug":"scientists-discover-planet-orbiting-closest-single-star-to-our-sun-eso-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/scientists-discover-planet-orbiting-closest-single-star-to-our-sun-eso-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our Sun &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard\u2019s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days. The team\u2019s observations also hint at the existence of three more exoplanet candidates, in various orbits around the star &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2414\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on the ESO website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard\u2019s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days. The team\u2019s observations also hint at the existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eso2414.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eso2414.jpg",150,84,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eso2414.jpg",300,169,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eso2414.jpg",768,432,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eso2414.jpg",1024,576,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eso2414.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eso2414.jpg",1280,720,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard\u2019s star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus, a year lasts just over three Earth days. The team\u2019s observations also hint at the existence of three more exoplanet candidates, in various orbits around the star &#8211; Read the full story on the ESO website<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}