{"id":157502,"date":"2023-02-09T23:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T05:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/mysterious-eruption-detected-on-star-could-help-explain-fast-radio-bursts"},"modified":"2023-02-09T23:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T05:24:46","slug":"mysterious-eruption-detected-on-star-could-help-explain-fast-radio-bursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/mysterious-eruption-detected-on-star-could-help-explain-fast-radio-bursts","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Eruption Detected on Star Could Help Explain Fast Radio Bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-eruption-detected-on-star-could-help-explain-fast-radio-bursts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most interesting stars in the Milky Way is still serving up more than its fair share of intrigue.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, SGR 1935+2154, the magnetar responsible for spitting out radio signals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-galactic-magnetar-just-spat-out-something-shockingly-like-a-fast-radio-burst\">never before detected in our home galaxy<\/a>, unexpectedly slowed down.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists believe the rotational slowdown could be evidence of a volcano-like eruption on its surface, spewing material out into space that altered the star\u2019s environment enough to decelerate the spinning of the planet minutely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting stars in the Milky Way is still serving up more than its fair share of intrigue. In October 2020, SGR 1935+2154, the magnetar responsible for spitting out radio signals never before detected in our home galaxy, unexpectedly slowed down. Now, scientists believe the rotational slowdown could be evidence of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157502","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\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}