{"id":140569,"date":"2022-06-14T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-wandering-star-disrupts-the-stellar-nursery"},"modified":"2022-06-14T03:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:02:24","slug":"a-wandering-star-disrupts-the-stellar-nursery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-wandering-star-disrupts-the-stellar-nursery","title":{"rendered":"A wandering star disrupts the stellar nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-wandering-star-disrupts-the-stellar-nursery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists zoomed in closer and closer, things became weirder and weirder.<\/p>\n<p>As the researchers peered closer into the cloud, they noticed that its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a> was curiously twisted. And then\u2014as they examined a newborn star within the cloud\u2014they spotted a hidden star, tucked behind it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the star\u2019s sibling, basically,\u201d said Northwestern\u2019s Erin Cox, who led the new study. \u201cWe think these stars formed far apart, and one moved closer to the other to form a binary. When the star traveled closer to its sibling, it shifted the dynamics of the cloud to twist its magnetic field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists zoomed in closer and closer, things became weirder and weirder. As the researchers peered closer into the cloud, they noticed that its magnetic field was curiously twisted. And then\u2014as they examined a newborn star within the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140569","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}