{"id":110641,"date":"2020-07-30T07:42:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronomers-find-stream-of-early-universe-stars-torn-apart"},"modified":"2020-07-30T07:42:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:42:53","slug":"astronomers-find-stream-of-early-universe-stars-torn-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronomers-find-stream-of-early-universe-stars-torn-apart","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Find Stream of Early Universe Stars, Torn Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjiKhp15GbA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a mysterious stream of ancient stars at the distant edges of the galaxy: a strange stellar breed so unlike any we\u2019ve seen before, they may very well be the last of their kind.<\/p>\n<p>This unusual collection of stars \u2013 called the \u2018Phoenix stream\u2019, after the Phoenix constellation in which they are visible \u2013 is what\u2019s known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_stellar_streams\">stellar stream<\/a>: an elongated chain of stars that used to exist in a spherical form, known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Globular_cluster\">globular cluster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Such clusters can be torn asunder by a galaxy\u2019s gravitational forces, in which case their globular form becomes warped, stretching out into a ghostly caravan of stars, fated to distantly orbit a faraway galactic core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a mysterious stream of ancient stars at the distant edges of the galaxy: a strange stellar breed so unlike any we\u2019ve seen before, they may very well be the last of their kind. This unusual collection of stars \u2013 called the \u2018Phoenix stream\u2019, after the Phoenix constellation in which they are visible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110641","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=110641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}