Is Space Algae Plausible?

Is it possible for massive clumps of algae to evolve and survive in deep space?

Let's say there is an expanding red star in a system with asteroids and planets once containing organic molecules, and these naturally evolve into a sort of organism that uses sunlight for consumption as well as electrical fields, draining passing starships of their power supply and trapping them.

The system itself can be a nebula, with ionized hydrogen and other gases.

These colonies of spaceweed would measure thousands of kilometers long, in floating clouds around the gravity wells of this system, and would present a hazard for colonists.

If this is possible then how would its physiology work?

posted over 6 years ago

JTriptych‭

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