{"id":134057,"date":"2022-01-14T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T01:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/1000-light-year-wide-bubble-surrounding-earth-is-source-of-all-nearby-young-stars"},"modified":"2022-01-14T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T01:24:37","slug":"1000-light-year-wide-bubble-surrounding-earth-is-source-of-all-nearby-young-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/1000-light-year-wide-bubble-surrounding-earth-is-source-of-all-nearby-young-stars","title":{"rendered":"1,000-light-year wide bubble surrounding Earth is source of all nearby, young stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1000-light-year-wide-bubble-surrounding-earth-is-source-of-all-nearby-young-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really an origin story; for the first time we can explain how all nearby star formation began,\u201d says astronomer and data visualization expert <a href=\"https:\/\/catherinezucker.github.io\/\">Catherine Zucker<\/a> who completed the work during a fellowship at the CfA.<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u2019s central figure, a <a href=\"https:\/\/faun.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/czucker\/Paper_Figures\/Interactive_Figure1.html\">3D spacetime animation<\/a>, reveals that all young stars and star-forming regions \u2014 within 500 light years of Earth \u2014 sit on the surface of a giant bubble known as the Local Bubble. While astronomers have known of its existence for decades, scientists can now see and understand the Local Bubble\u2019s beginnings and its impact on the gas around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is really an origin story; for the first time we can explain how all nearby star formation began,\u201d says astronomer and data visualization expert Catherine Zucker who completed the work during a fellowship at the CfA. The paper\u2019s central figure, a 3D spacetime animation, reveals that all young stars and star-forming regions \u2014 within [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134057","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}