ScienceCasts: Stellar Extremophiles

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A NASA space telescope named "GALEX" has found stars forming in extreme galactic environments, places where researchers thought stars should not be. The finding could affect astronomy much as the discovery of microbial extremophiles affected biology in the 1970s.

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Besides, stars are not obliged to follow the rules of some puny human scientists.

[mikemoos]

Yet.

[MallenCraft]

Mr yendor. Ever heard of a water bear?

[jose medina]

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[5279832496]

Our brains are not perfect. We may just not be smart enough to figure out where stars will form.

[MrYendor1968]

if a plant can turn light into food with nutrients into enegy and bugs can live in volcanic vents and deep under ground and in ice. then a bug or plant could easly evolve to live in space in a vacume. all it would need to do is reuse its food sorce, a plant cross bug, could work

[skylinevspec000]

meh, im a nerd.. i can enjoy :P

[huyked]

Thanks for the link. I read it all.

I guess, to me, it just seemed like your explanation to MrAlbertFeyen was denigrating theory to hypothesis status. Perhaps I'm just misunderstanding you and/or your intent.

[huyked]

I think you may be confusing the colloquial use of "theory" to hypothesis or guess, vs. scientific theory.

ww w. thefreedictionary . com/ scientific+theory

Also, look at wikipedia

Here is the definition: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory"