{"id":178102,"date":"2023-12-12T00:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/cosmic-nuclear-fission-seen-for-1st-time-in-incredibly-profound-discovery"},"modified":"2023-12-12T00:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:39:18","slug":"cosmic-nuclear-fission-seen-for-1st-time-in-incredibly-profound-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/cosmic-nuclear-fission-seen-for-1st-time-in-incredibly-profound-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic nuclear fission seen for 1st time in \u2018incredibly profound\u2019 discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmic-nuclear-fission-seen-for-1st-time-in-incredibly-profound-discovery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only plausible way this can arise among different stars is if there is a consistent process operating during the formation of the heavy elements,\u201d Mumpower said. \u201cThis is incredibly profound and is the first evidence of fission operating in the cosmos, confirming a theory we proposed several years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we\u2019ve acquired more observations, the cosmos is saying, \u2018hey, there\u2019s a signature here, and it can only come from fission.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neutron stars are created when massive stars reach the end of their fuel supplies necessary for intrinsic nuclear fusion processes, which means the energy that has been supporting them against the inward push of their own gravity ceases. As the outer layers of these dying stars are blown away, the stellar cores with masses between one and two times that of the sun collapse into a width of around 12 miles (20 kilometers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe only plausible way this can arise among different stars is if there is a consistent process operating during the formation of the heavy elements,\u201d Mumpower said. \u201cThis is incredibly profound and is the first evidence of fission operating in the cosmos, confirming a theory we proposed several years ago.\u201d \u201cAs we\u2019ve acquired more observations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178102","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=178102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}