{"id":187548,"date":"2024-04-17T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/exploding-stars-are-rare-but-emit-torrents-of-radiation-one-close-enough-to-earth-could-threaten-life-on-the-planet"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T15:31:19","slug":"exploding-stars-are-rare-but-emit-torrents-of-radiation-one-close-enough-to-earth-could-threaten-life-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/exploding-stars-are-rare-but-emit-torrents-of-radiation-one-close-enough-to-earth-could-threaten-life-on-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"Exploding Stars are Rare but Emit Torrents of Radiation\u2014one close enough to Earth could Threaten Life on the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exploding-stars-are-rare-but-emit-torrents-of-radiation-one-close-enough-to-earth-could-threaten-life-on-the-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stars like the sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of hydrogen into helium that powers them. This process will keep the sun shining steadily for about 5 billion more years, but when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, their deaths can lead to pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n<p>The sun will eventually die by growing large and then condensing into a type of star called a white dwarf. But stars more than eight times more massive than the sun die violently in an explosion called a supernova.<\/p>\n<p>Supernovae happen across the Milky Way only a few times a century, and these violent explosions are usually remote enough that people here on Earth don\u2019t notice. For a dying star to have any effect on life on our planet, it would have to go supernova within 100 light years from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars like the sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of hydrogen into helium that powers them. This process will keep the sun shining steadily for about 5 billion more years, but when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, their deaths can lead to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187548","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}