{"id":157532,"date":"2023-02-10T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/astronomers-detect-a-strange-new-molecular-bubble-structure-in-space"},"modified":"2023-02-10T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:22:17","slug":"astronomers-detect-a-strange-new-molecular-bubble-structure-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/astronomers-detect-a-strange-new-molecular-bubble-structure-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Detect a Strange New \u2018Molecular Bubble\u2019 Structure in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-detect-a-strange-new-molecular-bubble-structure-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered structure located deep in the heart of a thick cloud of gas and dust more than 450 light-years away is the signature of a pair of baby stars in the throes of formation.<\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers have identified a previously unseen bubble at the center of a stellar nursery called Barnard 18 in the Taurus molecular cloud complex, likely carved from the surrounding gas as two emerging stars therein formed and grew.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only the second time astronomers have identified such a bubble with the ejection of material or \u2018outflow\u2019 associated with a growing star. The newly discovered structure could help scientists learn more about how stars affect their environment as they grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered structure located deep in the heart of a thick cloud of gas and dust more than 450 light-years away is the signature of a pair of baby stars in the throes of formation. A team of astronomers have identified a previously unseen bubble at the center of a stellar nursery called Barnard [\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-157532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157532","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=157532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}