{"id":182429,"date":"2024-02-10T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/explosion-light-years-away-could-obliterate-life-on-earth-scientists-find"},"modified":"2024-02-10T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T17:30:09","slug":"explosion-light-years-away-could-obliterate-life-on-earth-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/explosion-light-years-away-could-obliterate-life-on-earth-scientists-find","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/explosion-light-years-away-could-obliterate-life-on-earth-scientists-find2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even if they were dozens of light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ad12b7\" class=\"\">recent paper<\/a> published in <em>The Astrophysical Journal<\/em>, in which a team of researchers concluded that a kilonova could pose a major threat to Earth-like planets, even at formidable interstellar distances.<\/p>\n<p>A kilonova is usually the result of a collision involving two neutron stars within a binary system, or when a neutron star and a black hole merge. These collisions release brain-melting amounts of electromagnetic radiation in the form of gamma-ray bursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if they were dozens of light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth. At least, that\u2019s according to a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, in which a team of researchers concluded that a kilonova could pose a major threat to Earth-like planets, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182429","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}