{"id":170407,"date":"2023-08-24T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T00:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/breaking-waves-on-the-surface-of-the-heartbeat-star-macho-80-7443-1718"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T00:24:55","slug":"breaking-waves-on-the-surface-of-the-heartbeat-star-macho-80-7443-1718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/breaking-waves-on-the-surface-of-the-heartbeat-star-macho-80-7443-1718","title":{"rendered":"Breaking waves on the surface of the heartbeat star MACHO 80.7443.1718"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-waves-on-the-surface-of-the-heartbeat-star-macho-80-7443-17182.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tides on the star MACHO 80.7443.1718 are so extreme that they crash and break every close passage in the pair of stars\u2019 elliptical orbit. Models show how these breaking tidal waves create a rapidly rotating, shock-heated circumstellar atmosphere every periapse passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tides on the star MACHO 80.7443.1718 are so extreme that they crash and break every close passage in the pair of stars\u2019 elliptical orbit. Models show how these breaking tidal waves create a rapidly rotating, shock-heated circumstellar atmosphere every periapse passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170407","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}