Would radiation in a Seyfert or Quasar galaxy kill life on planets within?

Subject: Would radiation in a Seyfert or Quasar galaxy kill life on planets within?

Date: Wed Feb 3 16:36:51 1999
Posted by Wm A Frankart, Ph.D.
Grade level: grad (science)
School: No school entered.
City: Spokane State/Province: WA
Country: USA
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 918081411.As

Message:


Seyfert galaxies and Quasars radiate prodigious amounts of 
radiation.  Would this likely kill life on planets within such a 
galaxy?  Could this have happened in our galaxy?
Could such radiation (from an active milky way nucleus)account 
for the several extinctions that have occurred on earth?

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