{"id":83575,"date":"2018-10-14T05:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-milky-way-could-be-spreading-life-from-star-to-star"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:49:40","slug":"the-milky-way-could-be-spreading-life-from-star-to-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-milky-way-could-be-spreading-life-from-star-to-star","title":{"rendered":"The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-milky-way-could-be-spreading-life-from-star-to-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For almost two centuries, scientists have theorized that life may be distributed throughout the Universe by meteoroids, asteroids, planetoids, and other astronomical objects.<\/p>\n<p>This theory, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomycast.com\/2007\/09\/special-episode-panspermia\/\">Panspermia<\/a>, is based on the idea that microorganisms and the chemical precursors of life are able to survive being transported from one star system to the next.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding on this theory, a team of researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics<\/a> (CfA) conducted <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1810.04307.pdf\">a study<\/a> that considered whether panspermia could be possible on a galactic scale.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-milky-way-could-be-spreading-life-from-star-to-star\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-milky-way-could-be-spreadin...ar-to-star<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost two centuries, scientists have theorized that life may be distributed throughout the Universe by meteoroids, asteroids, planetoids, and other astronomical objects. This theory, known as Panspermia, is based on the idea that microorganisms and the chemical precursors of life are able to survive being transported from one star system to the next. Expanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83575","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83741,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83575\/revisions\/83741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}