{"id":177192,"date":"2023-12-01T10:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/triple-star-discovery-could-revolutionize-understanding-of-stellar-evolution"},"modified":"2023-12-01T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:26:28","slug":"triple-star-discovery-could-revolutionize-understanding-of-stellar-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/triple-star-discovery-could-revolutionize-understanding-of-stellar-evolution","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Triple Star\u2019 Discovery could Revolutionize Understanding of Stellar Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/triple-star-discovery-could-revolutionize-understanding-of-stellar-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A ground-breaking new discovery by University of Leeds scientists could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Research by PhD student Jonathan Dodd and Professor Ren\u00e9 Oudmaijer, from the University\u2019s School of Physics and Astronomy, points to intriguing new evidence that massive Be stars \u2014 until now mainly thought to exist in double stars \u2014 could in fact be \u201ctriples.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable discovery could revolutionise our understanding of the objects \u2014 a subset of B stars \u2014 which are considered an important \u201ctest bed\u201d for developing theories on how stars evolve more generally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ground-breaking new discovery by University of Leeds scientists could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the Universe. Research by PhD student Jonathan Dodd and Professor Ren\u00e9 Oudmaijer, from the University\u2019s School of Physics and Astronomy, points to intriguing new evidence that massive Be stars \u2014 until [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177192","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}