{"id":149459,"date":"2022-11-04T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/astronomers-get-a-rare-glimpse-of-the-exposed-core-of-a-star"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:22:18","slug":"astronomers-get-a-rare-glimpse-of-the-exposed-core-of-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/astronomers-get-a-rare-glimpse-of-the-exposed-core-of-a-star","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers get a rare glimpse of the exposed core of a star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-get-a-rare-glimpse-of-the-exposed-core-of-a-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes astrophysics gets super weird.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A recent study of the star\u2019s surface, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/s41550-022-01809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">published in the journal <i>Nature Astronomy<\/i><\/a>, says that we\u2019re seeing Gamma Columbae in a short, deeply weird phase of a very eventful stellar life, one that lets astronomers look directly into the star\u2019s exposed heart.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s New \u2013 The mix of chemical elements on the surface of Gamma Columbae look like the byproducts of nuclear reactions that should be buried in the depths of a massive star, not bubbling on its surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes astrophysics gets super weird. A recent study of the star\u2019s surface, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, says that we\u2019re seeing Gamma Columbae in a short, deeply weird phase of a very eventful stellar life, one that lets astronomers look directly into the star\u2019s exposed heart. What\u2019s New \u2013 The mix of chemical elements [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149459","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}