{"id":101495,"date":"2020-01-28T03:08:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/astronomers-have-caught-a-rare-and-massive-accretion-burst-in-our-galaxy"},"modified":"2020-01-28T03:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:08:23","slug":"astronomers-have-caught-a-rare-and-massive-accretion-burst-in-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/astronomers-have-caught-a-rare-and-massive-accretion-burst-in-our-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Caught a Rare And Massive \u2018Accretion Burst\u2019 in Our Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-caught-a-rare-and-massive-accretion-burst-in-our-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here on Earth, we pay quite a lot of attention to the sun. It\u2019s visible to us, after all, and central to our lives. But it is only one of the billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. It\u2019s also quite small compared to other stars \u2013 most are at least eight times more <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/astrogeo\/article\/53\/4\/4.30\/225742\">massive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These massive stars influence the structure, shape and chemical content of a galaxy. And when they have exhausted their hydrogen gas fuel and die, they do so in an explosive event called <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/supernova\/en\/\">a supernova<\/a>. This explosion is sometimes so strong that it triggers the formation of new stars out of materials in the dead star\u2019s surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s an important gap in our knowledge: astronomers don\u2019t yet fully understand how those original massive stars themselves are initially formed. So far, observations have only yielded some pieces of the puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here on Earth, we pay quite a lot of attention to the sun. It\u2019s visible to us, after all, and central to our lives. But it is only one of the billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. It\u2019s also quite small compared to other stars \u2013 most are at least eight times [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}