{"id":112296,"date":"2020-09-01T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-strange-form-of-life-could-flourish-deep-inside-of-stars-physicists-say"},"modified":"2020-09-01T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T22:23:14","slug":"a-strange-form-of-life-could-flourish-deep-inside-of-stars-physicists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-strange-form-of-life-could-flourish-deep-inside-of-stars-physicists-say","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Form of Life Could Flourish Deep Inside of Stars, Physicists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-strange-form-of-life-could-flourish-deep-inside-of-stars-physicists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When searching for signs of life in the Universe, we tend to look for very specific things, based on what we know: a planet like Earth, in orbit around a star, and at a distance that allows liquid surface water. But there could, conceivably, be other forms of life out there that look like nothing that we have ever imagined before.<\/p>\n<p>Just as we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-say-they-ve-found-a-place-on-earth-where-no-life-can-thrive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extremophiles<\/a> here on Earth \u2014 organisms that live in the most extreme and seemingly inhospitable environments the planet has to offer \u2014 so too could there be extremophiles out there in the wider Universe.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, species that can form, evolve, and thrive in the interiors of stars. According to new research by physicists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehman.edu\/academics\/physics-astronomy\/fac-anchordoqui.php\">Luis Anchordoqui<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehman.edu\/academics\/physics-astronomy\/fac-chudnovsky.php\">Eugene Chudnovsky<\/a> of The City University of New York, such a thing is indeed \u2014 hypothetically, at least \u2014 possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When searching for signs of life in the Universe, we tend to look for very specific things, based on what we know: a planet like Earth, in orbit around a star, and at a distance that allows liquid surface water. But there could, conceivably, be other forms of life out there that look like nothing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}