{"id":169504,"date":"2023-08-12T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/esas-gaia-satellite-spots-retired-stars-passing-through-young-star-forming-area"},"modified":"2023-08-12T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T07:23:00","slug":"esas-gaia-satellite-spots-retired-stars-passing-through-young-star-forming-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/esas-gaia-satellite-spots-retired-stars-passing-through-young-star-forming-area","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s Gaia satellite spots \u2018retired stars\u2019 passing through young star-forming area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/esas-gaia-satellite-spots-retired-stars-passing-through-young-star-forming-area2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These waves can reach heights comparable to stacking three suns on top of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a strange star system with \u201cmonster\u201d tidal waves breaking on one of its stars. Astrophysicists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) developed new computer models to better understand the impact of huge surface waves.<\/p>\n<p>The new models reveal \u201ctitanic waves\u201d created by the tides of a smaller companion star to be repeatedly crashing on the colossal star in the system. This phenomenon has never been detected on a star, making it a significant discovery.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mark Garlick.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously considered that old, evolved stars do not interlope with young stars and their planetary systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These waves can reach heights comparable to stacking three suns on top of each other. Astronomers have discovered a strange star system with \u201cmonster\u201d tidal waves breaking on one of its stars. Astrophysicists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) developed new computer models to better understand the impact of huge 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":[1523,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169504","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=169504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}