could there be life on the sun?
472595
doubt it the suns outa layer alone has a temp of 6,000°C (11,000°F. and the inner core with a temp of  15,000,000° C; 27,000,000°F. and pressure (340 billion times Earth's air pressure at sea level) is so intense that nuclear reactions take place. so its highly doubtful but if there where they'd be some strong little ufos no human nor animal or even a earths creature could possibly survive the heat that intense
443505
adding to snagelfritz, there could bve life in a gas giant.  They would float on blimps, and be hunted by gliding organisms with sharp claws to tear right through them.  Several forms of life could exist in the solar system, like also on titan, there could have possibly been life, giving the fact that the atmosphere is made up of the same elements as ours!
805772
im not surprised if it exists. but those will probably not be sunhuman, but bacteria instead. did you know that most things ARE covered with some form of bacteria? But of course most of it isnt harmful as well. as long as the surface has the right conditions, the bacteria can live on it.
18963
This is a little hard to answer.\n\nFirst, we haven't found any.  So there's no positive evidence, so it's hard to be really sure. \n\nBut on the other hand, there are billions and billions of planets like ours, and it would be really weird if ours was the only one to have life on it.\n\nSo most astronomers think there's probably life out there somewhere.  I hope we find it.
1126911
I believe there is life other than on Earth. Even if just mathematically!\nAn interesting point though, is that the authorities on this field have concluded that the nearest system that COULD support life is Sirius. That's interesting, because throughout history, the more believable tales of alien contact seem to all point to that star system. The Dogon tribe are a classic example of that. They apparently knew of Sirius A and its two companions(Sirius B and Sirius C) long before any 'civilised' society. Sirius C has yet to be discovered, but could well be there! I quote from Wikipedia: "Apparent orbital irregularities in Sirius B have been observed since 1894, suggesting a third very small companion star, but this has never been definitely confirmed." \n\nAs to us being Parasites on this Living Planet, I couldn't agree more.
611976
Definitely.  Even if its just some microbes out in space, just the sheer number of planets and stars etc I would think there would have to be other life out there!
249308
Sure why not.\n\nJust look up in the night sky. There are so many starts we can see, and untold planets we can't. This is just one galaxy. There are so many more out there in the univers. It is really silly to think that with all those planets, ours is the only one that has life.\nOur planet is still a young one. I'm sure there are life forms on other planets that have technology we can't begin to comprehend
334251
The sun is not a planet.
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It may well be!\n\nThe problem is that we haven't really looked. It's true that the probes we've sent around our own solar system have drawn a blank when it comes to life. Life as we know it seems to prefer a certain range of temperatures and habitats, and those conditions aren't all that common. But they do exist, both here in our solar system and (almost certainly) in other solar systems as well.
671308
Of course I think life exists!  Infact, I beleive there is life in the solar system.  How do we know if there isnt life floating in the clouds of a gas giant, or icy crystal like things on pluito?  We havent searched hard enough for these yet!  Duh!\n\nLife outside of the solar system might be a little hard, considering that there are only "hold jupiturs," and "frozen earths."  Both are to hot or cold to support life, and they are massive and have insane gravity.  However certain single celled organisms, say bacteria or such, might reside on the planet.  I always thought that might be.\n\nIn addition, Europa, a moon of Jupitur, has ice flows on it that scientists think liquid water might reside under!  It might be interesting to see what could live there.  From the means of life there, I came up with a skating green creature who could move around on the ice, absorb the moisutre of the water, and undergo photosynthesis to obtain energy.  \n\nEnjoy!\n\nNote: I do beleive in aliens, but dont beleive in UFOs.  Considering how many hot jupiturs there are, I dont think we will even see any life as smart as we were as cavemen until alot later in time...
475816
I actually did hear about that in my college Astronomy class. I think it's pretty awesome. I mean, what if our sun burnt out. Maybe we could still have a significant amount of solar energy and radiation that could help us survive. I'm not sure if the star is old enough to develop life or not. It could have already developed it, and we just have no knowledge of it.
894625
No. Icy moons in the outer solar system may very well be teeming with life. Beyond our system there is definitely other intelligent life. \n\nHopefully a lot more intelligent.\n\nBeam me up, Scotty.
141516
The only planet we know of that has life is earth. Based on that very limited knowledge we can only estimate that earthlike life forms would have had great difficulty evolving in the worlds, in and out of the solarsystem, that we know of today (new planets are discovered almost daily). It is probably possible for terrestrial organisms to survive and maybe even prosper if introduced to some shielded and protected water rich enironments on the other worlds described above but there is a great difference between merely surviving and evolving. Life requires very special environments and conditions for a very long period of time, hundreds of millions of years, to evolve. We cant say for sure that those conditions were ever present on any world other than earth. But once life is born on a world it is extremely hard to extinguish completely as it would constantly evolve to adapt to changing environments. Life has nearly ended on earth many times as environments changed but has always bounced back. So if there was life on any other world in our solarsystem it would be so plentiful by now that we would have found traces of it in their atmospheres or in their soils. But we havent.
86421
Life? Not impossible. But not anything we would recognize. Radiation would be lethal for us.
427364
there hasn't been any found yet.... but... the possibility of life on other planets is very  high....  :)
822093
Sure. A planet orbiting far enough from such a star could be habitable, but not for long. When I say not long, I mean not as long as billions of years. Red giants do not last for billions of years, but they do last for millions of years, we think. So such a civilization probably could not have arisen there naturally, but could have been started by space travelers from another star settling there.
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Yes, we will discover other planets that also sustain life, and we will do so within our lifetime.  I do not mean that we will physically go to these planets but we will discover this by placing much more powerful telescopes in orbit around Earth.  There is a definite signature that we will be looking for and that will be the presence of Oxygen in another planet's atmosphere.  If a planet does not have any oxygen in its atmosphere then it would not be able to support life.  There was a time billions of years ago on Earth when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere and at that time there was no life on Earth.  We may not discover other intelligent life on other planet's during our lifetime but i am sure that we will discover other planets that are supporting at least plant life if not primordial single cell life as well.