{"id":207681,"date":"2025-03-03T11:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/white-dwarf-stars-may-host-more-habitable-exoplanets-than-expected"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:07:47","slug":"white-dwarf-stars-may-host-more-habitable-exoplanets-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/white-dwarf-stars-may-host-more-habitable-exoplanets-than-expected","title":{"rendered":"White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/white-dwarf-stars-may-host-more-habitable-exoplanets-than-expected2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could provide a stellar environment hospitable to life-supporting exoplanets, according to astronomers at the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published recently in The Astrophysical Journal, a research team led by Aomawa Shields, UC Irvine associate professor of physics and astronomy, share the results of a study comparing the climates of exoplanets at two different stars.<\/p>\n<p>One is a hypothetical white dwarf that\u2019s passed through much of its life cycle and is on a slow path to stellar death. The other subject is Kepler-62, a \u201cmain sequence\u201d star at a similar phase in its evolution as our sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could provide a stellar environment hospitable to life-supporting exoplanets, according to astronomers at the University of California, Irvine. In a paper published recently in The Astrophysical Journal, a research team led by Aomawa Shields, UC Irvine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207681","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=207681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}