{"id":149709,"date":"2022-11-08T15:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/in-a-world-first-astronomers-observed-a-star-with-a-solid-outer-surface"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:24:49","slug":"in-a-world-first-astronomers-observed-a-star-with-a-solid-outer-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/in-a-world-first-astronomers-observed-a-star-with-a-solid-outer-surface","title":{"rendered":"In a world first, astronomers observed a star with a solid outer surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-world-first-astronomers-observed-a-star-with-a-solid-outer-surface.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was completely unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stars are essentially large fiery balls of plasma, which is often referred to as the \u201cfourth state of matter\u201d as it forms when gas is heated into a soup of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons.<\/p>\n<p>The star\u2019s magnetic field is so strong it appears to have \u201cfrozen\u201d its surface into a solid outer crust, a press statement reveals.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Naeblys\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, an international group of astronomers has observed a star with a solid outer layer for the first time, casting doubt on widely held preconceptions about the cosmic giants lighting the night sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis was completely unexpected.\u201d Stars are essentially large fiery balls of plasma, which is often referred to as the \u201cfourth state of matter\u201d as it forms when gas is heated into a soup of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. The star\u2019s magnetic field is so strong it appears to have \u201cfrozen\u201d its surface [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149709","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}