{"id":121458,"date":"2021-04-12T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/astronomers-sketch-u-monocerotis-a-rare-type-of-stellar-binary-using-over-a-century-of-observations"},"modified":"2021-04-12T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:22:19","slug":"astronomers-sketch-u-monocerotis-a-rare-type-of-stellar-binary-using-over-a-century-of-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/astronomers-sketch-u-monocerotis-a-rare-type-of-stellar-binary-using-over-a-century-of-observations","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Sketch U Monocerotis \u2013 A Rare Type of Stellar Binary \u2013 Using Over a Century of Observations"},"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\/UwqXO9hMHoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri variable, a rare type of stellar binary where two stars \u2013 one approaching the end of its life \u2013 orbit within a sprawling disk of dust. Their 130-year dataset spans the widest range of light yet collected for one of these systems, from radio to X-rays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only about 300 known RV Tauri variables in the Milky Way galaxy,\u201d said Laura Vega, a recent doctoral recipient at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. \u201cWe focused our study on the second brightest, named U Monocerotis, which is now the first of these systems from which X-rays have been detected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A paper describing the findings, led by Vega, was published in <em>The Astrophysical Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri variable, a rare type of stellar binary where two stars \u2013 one approaching the end of its life \u2013 orbit within a sprawling disk of dust. Their 130-year dataset spans the widest range of light yet collected for one of these systems, from radio [\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-121458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121458","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=121458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}