Could Life Survive Without a Star?

There are billions of planets out there that don t orbit stars. The sheer abundance of these planets has led some scientists to wonder if life could emerge without a star. Crash Course Business Entrepreneurship Learning Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNamNKW5qlS-nKgA0on7Qze Host: Reid Reimers 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 Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, Ron Kakar ---------- 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: https://medium.com/the-space-perspective/how-planets-without-stars-can-possibly-host-life-on-them-98532ac168f7 https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-make-our-home-on-a-rogue-planet-without-a-sun https://www.wired.com/2011/02/steppenwolf-planet/ http://hoffman.cm.utexas.edu/courses/rogue_planet_nature_letter.pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/735/2/L27/pdf https://www.space.com/38679-saturn-moon-enceladus-warm-churning-insides.html https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/rogue-planets-not-plentiful/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/0709.0945.pdf https://phys.org/news/2019-07-habitability-titan-ocean.html https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6246/420.abstract http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/cmoyer/zztemp_fire/biol405_S08/Nealson_slimes_tim05.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olivia_Judson/publication/316561085_The_energy_expansions_of_evolution/links/5b9ced28a6fdccd3cb581926/The-energy-expansions-of-evolution.pdf http://www.astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2018/09/tidal-heating https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/precambrian/archean_hadean.php ------ Images: https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1916b/ https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1245a/ https://www.videoblocks.com/video/pan-to-wild-butterflies-in-rain-forest-0rpo1t8 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/unique-fish-in-a-cave-sxf-rxsoxjlxmk81q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Candidatus_Desulforudis_audaxviator.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desulforudis_audaxviator.jpg https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1103/logs/photolog/welcome.html#cbpi=/okeanos/explorations/ex1103/dailyupdates/media/video/0723-vent-site.html https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1738b/ https://www.videoblocks.com/video/transparent-lava-overlay-with-alpha-channel-9tyfxyy https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/titan20120223L.html https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06254 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/3d-animation-of-flying-over-group-of-bacterias-medical-video-background-hwznc1ssmjfnxrfk2 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/school-of-coral-fish-near-hard-corals-on-friwen-wall-best-diving-spot-near-friwen-island-gam-raja-ampat-indonesia-bhicff_zbj3qapdka