{"id":127172,"date":"2021-09-03T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/dense-hot-spots-on-a-young-star-reveal-what-earths-sun-may-have-looked-in-its-infancy"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:22:52","slug":"dense-hot-spots-on-a-young-star-reveal-what-earths-sun-may-have-looked-in-its-infancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/dense-hot-spots-on-a-young-star-reveal-what-earths-sun-may-have-looked-in-its-infancy","title":{"rendered":"Dense \u2018hot spots\u2019 on a young star reveal what Earth\u2019s sun may have looked in its infancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dense-hot-spots-on-a-young-star-reveal-what-earths-sun-may-have-looked-in-its-infancy3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers may have captured the best view yet of matter colliding with the surface of a young star, findings that may shed light on what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\">the sun<\/a> looked like in its youth.<\/p>\n<p>Newborn stars are surrounded by a disk of gas and dust from which planets, asteroids, comets and moons are born. The star\u2019s magnetic field connects the star with this protoplanetary disk, \u201cfunneling material from the disk onto the star,\u201d study lead author Catherine Espaillat, an astrophysicist at Boston University, told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers may have captured the best view yet of matter colliding with the surface of a young star, findings that may shed light on what the sun looked like in its youth. Newborn stars are surrounded by a disk of gas and dust from which planets, asteroids, comets and moons are born. The star\u2019s magnetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127172","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=127172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}