{"id":17741,"date":"2020-04-15T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/new-earth-sized-planet-rescued-from-kepler-missions-old-data-and-it-may-be-habitable\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:31:08","slug":"new-earth-sized-planet-rescued-from-kepler-missions-old-data-and-it-may-be-habitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/new-earth-sized-planet-rescued-from-kepler-missions-old-data-and-it-may-be-habitable\/","title":{"rendered":"New Earth-sized planet \u2018rescued\u2019 from Kepler mission\u2019s old data \u2014 and it may be habitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_558980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558980\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-558980\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200415-exoplanet-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"Kepler-1649c\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200415-exoplanet-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200415-exoplanet-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200415-exoplanet.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-558980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. (NASA \/ Ames Research Center Illustration \/ Daniel Rutter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An alien Earth that just might be habitable has been discovered in years-old records, thanks to sharp-eyed astronomers who gave the data a second look.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The exoplanet, known as Kepler-1649c, is only 6% wider than Earth, and receives 75% as much starlight as Earth gets from our sun. It\u2019s so close to its parent star, a dim red dwarf 300 light-years from Earth, that its year lasts only 19.5 Earth days.<\/li>\n<li>NASA\u2019s Kepler space telescope captured the telltale transit data about Kepler-1649c during its primary space mission, which ended in 2013. But a computer program that was designed to identify potential planets in Kepler data, known as Robovetter, mislabeled the planet as a \u201cfalse positive.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>All-too-human members of the Kepler False Positive Working Group spotted the mistake and published their findings in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. For what it\u2019s worth, Kepler-1649c lies in its parent star\u2019s habitable zone \u2014 where conditions may be conducive for sustaining life, depending on what kind of atmosphere the planet has.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Andrew Vandenburg of the University of Texas at Austin is the principal author of the paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, titled \u201cA Habitable-Zone Earth-Sized Planet Rescued From False Positive Status.\u201d Co-authors include Pamela Rowden, Steve Bryson, Jeffrey Coughlin, Natalie Batalha, Karen Collins, David Latham, Susan Mullally, Knicole Colon, Chris Henze, Chelsea Huang and Samuel Quinn. Their findings will be the subject of a Reddit Ask Me Anything session from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. (NASA \/ Ames Research Center Illustration \/ Daniel Rutter) An alien Earth that just might be habitable has been discovered in years-old records, thanks to sharp-eyed astronomers who gave the data a second look. The exoplanet, known as Kepler-1649c, is only 6% wider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1874,559,2826,4709],"class_list":["post-17741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-astrobiology","tag-exoplanets","tag-kepler","tag-planets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}