{"id":488,"date":"2007-10-26T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2007-10-25T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T16:52:34","slug":"earth-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Earth Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a belt of warm dust swirling around the young star HD 113766.  It&#8217;s about 424 light-years away, and the formation is interesting because the star is just a bit larger than our sun <EM>and<\/EM> the dust belt is right in the sweet spot where temperatures will sustain liquid water.<\/p>\n<p>The age is apparently just right, too.  If the star system were too young, the disk would be full of gas and it would be making gas-giant planets like Jupiter instead. If it was too old, planets would have already formed.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20071003\/sc_space\/astronomersseesecondearthinthemaking\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a belt of warm dust swirling around the young star HD 113766. It&#8217;s about 424 light-years away, and the formation is interesting because the star is just a bit larger than our sun and the dust belt is right in the sweet spot where temperatures will sustain liquid water. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}