{"id":1116,"date":"2025-03-12T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:00:06","slug":"distant-star-explosions-could-have-wiped-out-life-on-earth-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/distant-star-explosions-could-have-wiped-out-life-on-earth-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant star explosions could have wiped out life on Earth twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/distant-star-explosions-could-have-wiped-out-life-on-earth-t_hten.640.webp\">Study finds supernovas close enough to do harm to Earth happen about once every 400 million years.<\/p>\n<p>Most people know the theory that an <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/29620\/whats-a-shooting-star-relax-youre-not-the-only-one-confused\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid<\/a><\/u> smashed into Earth \u2014 hitting what is now the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula \u2014 and killed off many of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/20245\/boom-nasa-just-slammed-into-an-asteroid-and-filmed-the-crash\" target=\"_blank\">dinosaurs<\/a><\/u> about 66 million years ago. <\/p>\n<p>But that was not the only mass extinction for the planet \u2014 just the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds supernovas close enough to do harm to Earth happen about once every 400 million years. Most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}