{"id":156805,"date":"2023-02-02T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T07:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/when-your-supernovas-a-dud-rare-binary-star-features-weirdly-round-orbit-researchers-report"},"modified":"2023-02-02T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T07:27:28","slug":"when-your-supernovas-a-dud-rare-binary-star-features-weirdly-round-orbit-researchers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/when-your-supernovas-a-dud-rare-binary-star-features-weirdly-round-orbit-researchers-report","title":{"rendered":"When your supernova\u2019s a dud: Rare binary star features weirdly round orbit, researchers report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-your-supernovas-a-dud-rare-binary-star-features-weirdly-round-orbit-researchers-report2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After crunching a mountain of astronomy data, Clarissa Pavao, an undergraduate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University\u2019s Prescott, Arizona campus, submitted her preliminary analysis. Her mentor\u2019s response was swift and in all-caps: \u201cTHERE\u2019S AN ORBIT!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>That was when Pavao, a senior space physics major, realized she was about to become a part of something big\u2014a paper in the journal <i>Nature<\/i> that describes a rare binary star system with uncommon features.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, published on Feb. 1, 2023, and co-authored with Dr. Noel D. Richardson, assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy at Embry-Riddle, describes a twin-star system that is luminous with X-rays and high in mass. Featuring a weirdly circular orbit\u2014an oddity among binaries\u2014the twin system seems to have formed when an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/exploding+star\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">exploding star<\/a> or supernova fizzled out without the usual bang, similar to a dud firecracker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After crunching a mountain of astronomy data, Clarissa Pavao, an undergraduate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University\u2019s Prescott, Arizona campus, submitted her preliminary analysis. Her mentor\u2019s response was swift and in all-caps: \u201cTHERE\u2019S AN ORBIT!\u201d he wrote. That was when Pavao, a senior space physics major, realized she was about to become a part of something big\u2014a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156805","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=156805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}