SciShow Space: Turns Out, the Sun Is... Pretty Chill | SciShow News

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Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Life on Earth depends on the steady nature of our star, and an international team of scientists searched thousands of other stars to try to find out if the sun has always been as consistent as it is now. And According to a study published Monday in Nature Astronomy, scientists searching for habitable exoplanets should maybe be looking in some more exotic places. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Sun paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6490/518 Microbes paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1069-4 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/mpif-sil042720.php https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0139 https://www.space.com/35170-how-the-sun-got-its-spots.html https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/jupiterfact.html https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/missions/jwst/ Images: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler20130103.html https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/largest-sunspot-of-solar-cycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcUhVCMAhAI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9u5ql0MGw https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/230249.php https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KeplerExoplanets-NearEarthSize-HabitableZone-20150106.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Webb_Space_Telescope_2009_top.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scanning_electron_micrograph_of_an_E._coli_colony.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_cerevisiae_under_DIC_microscopy.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esa-hubble-k2-18a_impression.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sun_by_the_Atmospheric_Imaging_Assembly_of_NASA%27s_Solar_Dynamics_Observatory_-_20100819.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_transit_of_sun_large.ogv https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/sunglasses-icon-silhouettes-gm455592403-17021084 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sun-and-nine-planets-orbiting-gm184326000-17288738 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/milky-way-gm1085287936-291215854 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/3d-rendering-coronary-emissions-and-prominences-on-the-sun-in-space-gm834728820-135673349 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/astronaut-opening-helmet-gm1163032159-319229599 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/greenhouse-effect-gm628978348-111795323 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/jarred-food-icons-gm165793945-19196463 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-gassy-exoplanet-lit-by-a-nearby-star-gm1032871964-276642828 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/watzmann-in-alps-dramatic-reflection-at-sunset-national-park-berchtesgaden-gm1136834574-302910102


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