{"id":219215,"date":"2025-08-01T04:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/could-betelgeuse-supernova-cause-extinction-on-earth-two-ancient-star-explosions-may-have-done-just-that"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:33:27","slug":"could-betelgeuse-supernova-cause-extinction-on-earth-two-ancient-star-explosions-may-have-done-just-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/could-betelgeuse-supernova-cause-extinction-on-earth-two-ancient-star-explosions-may-have-done-just-that","title":{"rendered":"Could Betelgeuse supernova cause extinction on Earth? Two ancient star explosions may have done just that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-betelgeuse-supernova-cause-extinction-on-earth-two-ancient-star-explosions-may-have-done-just-that.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could an exploding star \u2013 a supernova \u2013 cause a mass extinction on Earth? One study suggests that may have happened twice already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could an exploding star \u2013 a supernova \u2013 cause a mass extinction on Earth? One study suggests that may have happened twice already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219215","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}