{"591239":{"#nid":"591239","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Finding Signs of Alien Life Might Be Harder Than We Thought. Here\u2019s Why","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt seems like every day that astronomers discover another possibly habitable world, like Proxima Centauri b, our closest exoplanent neighbor, and TRAPPIST-1f, one of seven recently discovered Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star. But don\u0026#39;t prepare for first contact just yet. It will be exceedingly complicated to figure out whether there\u0026#39;s actually any life or potential for it on such planets, based on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/online.liebertpub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1089\/ast.2016.1598\u0022\u003Enew research\u003C\/a\u003E into our own evolving world. \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/content\/reinhard-dr-chris\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard,\u003C\/a\u003E an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, co-authored the study, which was published in Astrobiology.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-05-02 19:30:24","changed_gmt":"2017-05-03 19:18:57","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Lost In Your Vibe","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/the-big-questions\/finding-signs-alien-life-might-be-harder-we-thought-here-n752491","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591077":{"id":"591077","type":"image","title":"Chris Reinhard ","body":null,"created":"1493392354","gmt_created":"2017-04-28 15:12:34","changed":"1493392354","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 15:12:34","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225220","name":"Chris Reinhard .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Chris%20Reinhard%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Chris%20Reinhard%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10594,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Chris%20Reinhard%20.jpg?itok=CwqiJ4xu"}}},"media_ids":["591077"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"170504","name":"Chris Reinhard"},{"id":"173529","name":"extraterrestrial life"},{"id":"7572","name":"microbes"},{"id":"170509","name":"exoplanets"},{"id":"174307","name":"Proxima Centauri"},{"id":"174308","name":"Trappist"}],"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":""}}}