{"id":114661,"date":"2020-10-18T22:31:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/astronomers-warn-that-our-sun-is-having-a-midlife-crisis"},"modified":"2020-10-18T22:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:31:19","slug":"astronomers-warn-that-our-sun-is-having-a-midlife-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/astronomers-warn-that-our-sun-is-having-a-midlife-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Warn That Our Sun Is Having a \u201cMidlife Crisis\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-warn-that-our-sun-is-having-a-midlife-crisis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Keeping Calm<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Over the last four years, the brightness of the other stars fluctuated wildly, whereas the Sun stayed relatively constant, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/368\/6490\/466\">according to research<\/a> published Friday in the journal <em>Science<\/em>. In fact, the difference between the Sun\u2019s brightest and dimmest moments is a fifth the size of other stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to see if the Sun is somehow different,\u201d Max Planck Institute researcher Timo Reinhold told <em>Inverse<\/em>. \u201cPeople have claimed that it\u2019s more quiet than other stars, while others have claimed that it\u2019s similarly active so we wanted to really boil it down to this very solar-like sample that is very similar to the Sun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping Calm Over the last four years, the brightness of the other stars fluctuated wildly, whereas the Sun stayed relatively constant, according to research published Friday in the journal Science. In fact, the difference between the Sun\u2019s brightest and dimmest moments is a fifth the size of other stars. \u201cWe wanted to see if the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114661","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}