{"id":70172,"date":"2017-06-05T02:42:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T09:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/suns-peculiar-rotation-key-to-complex-life-new-data-suggests"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:00:58","slug":"suns-peculiar-rotation-key-to-complex-life-new-data-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/suns-peculiar-rotation-key-to-complex-life-new-data-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Sun\u2019s Peculiar Rotation Key To Complex Life, New Data Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/suns-peculiar-rotation-key-to-complex-life-new-data-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the archives.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Solar rotation rates. Credit: NASA<\/p>\n<p>Most Astronomy 101 courses continually pound the idea that our own star is almost boringly average. After all, it\u2019s only one of billions of G-spectral type, solar-like stars in the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>But the sun\u2019s relative magnetic quiescence, in comparison to other sun-like stars, may be the reason we\u2019re here to talk about it. Or so suggests new observations of a nearby bright solar type star that is a close analogue to our own.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2012\/12\/30\/suns-peculiar-rotation-may-be-one-key-to-lifes-evolutionary-longevity-here-new-observations-suggest\/#415fad424523\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2012\/12\/30\/suns-p...5fad424523<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the archives. Solar rotation rates. Credit: NASA Most Astronomy 101 courses continually pound the idea that our own star is almost boringly average. After all, it\u2019s only one of billions of G-spectral type, solar-like stars in the galaxy. But the sun\u2019s relative magnetic quiescence, in comparison to other sun-like stars, may be the reason [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70172","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70234,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70172\/revisions\/70234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}