{"id":20502,"date":"2016-01-06T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/alien-life-may-be-hiding-in-these-brilliant-star-clusters"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:10:57","slug":"alien-life-may-be-hiding-in-these-brilliant-star-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/alien-life-may-be-hiding-in-these-brilliant-star-clusters","title":{"rendered":"Alien Life May Be Hiding in These Brilliant Star Clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-life-may-be-hiding-in-these-brilliant-star-clusters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We shall see. We shall see. <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-wink\" title=\";-)\">wink<\/span>  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For three decades, humans have searched for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth, and yet we\u2019ve only sampled a tiny drop of our vast cosmic ocean. If we\u2019re ever to find a radio-hot, spacefaring civilization, we need to know where to point our telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>But the answer may be simpler than we thought. According to a new study, there are roughly 150 brilliant patches of space that deserve our attention.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re called globular clusters, an evocative term for ancient, gravitationally-bound regions of space that can pack a whopping million stars per hundred cubic light years. Once thought to be uninhabitable, new research by Rosanne Di Stefano of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Alak Ray of the Tata Institute in Mumbai suggests that globular clusters may, in fact, be the ideal places for advanced civilizations to flourish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/alien-life-may-be-hiding-in-these-brilliant-star-cluste-1751051471\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We shall see. We shall see. wink For three decades, humans have searched for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth, and yet we\u2019ve only sampled a tiny drop of our vast cosmic ocean. If we\u2019re ever to find a radio-hot, spacefaring civilization, we need to know where to point our telescopes. But the answer may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63338,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions\/63338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}