{"607559":{"#nid":"607559","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New research suggests two exoplanets might be more like Earth than we realized","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew evidence has surfaced suggesting that exoplanet Kepler-186f\u0026nbsp;could have changing seasons and a climate, much like Earth. The\u0026nbsp;discovery is exciting astronomers and leading to calls for newer, more detailed studies of this alien world. If Kepler-186f sounds familiar, that\u0026#39;s because it\u0026#39;s been in the news before:\u0026nbsp;the Earthlike world\u0026nbsp;has been a\u0026nbsp;subject of scientific inquiry\u0026nbsp;since it was first discovered in April 2014, with the help of NASA\u0026#39;s Kepler Space Telescope, which revealed it to be an Earth-size planet whose orbit is located within a habitable distance from its sun. A new study published in the Astronomical Journal\u0026nbsp;corroborates the previous findings and suggests there is even more reason to believe it could be an Earth 2.0. Using simulations, authors Yutong Shan and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/gongjie-li\u0022\u003EGongjie Li\u003C\/a\u003E analyzed\u0026nbsp;the planet\u0026#39;s spin-axis dynamics,\u0026nbsp;meaning the\u0026nbsp;relationship\u0026nbsp;between the planet\u0026#39;s axis of orbit relative to its orbit around its host star\u0026hellip; \u0026ldquo;Our study is among the first to investigate climate stability of exoplanets and adds to the growing understanding of these potentially habitable nearby worlds,\u0026rdquo; said Li, an author of the study and assistant professor in the School of Physics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-07-08 14:40:27","changed_gmt":"2018-07-08 14:45:37","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Terry Maple","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/07\/03\/new-research-suggests-two-exoplanets-might-be-more-like-earth-than-we-realized\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"607454":{"id":"607454","type":"image","title":"Gongjie Li","body":null,"created":"1530550301","gmt_created":"2018-07-02 16:51:41","changed":"1530550301","gmt_changed":"2018-07-02 16:51:41","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231713","name":"2018 Gongjie Li.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Gongjie%20Li.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Gongjie%20Li.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42045,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%20Gongjie%20Li.jpg?itok=529AR6hp"}}},"media_ids":["607454"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"170509","name":"exoplanets"},{"id":"177416","name":"Gongjie Li"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}