{"id":179431,"date":"2023-12-29T06:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/mysterious-stars-detected-in-nearby-galaxies"},"modified":"2023-12-29T06:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T12:24:37","slug":"mysterious-stars-detected-in-nearby-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/mysterious-stars-detected-in-nearby-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious stars detected in nearby galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-stars-detected-in-nearby-galaxies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Observing these types of stars is rare; only one was previously identified. Now, researchers have found a whole population of these stars in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/science\/meet-the-magellanic-clouds-our-galaxys-brightest-satellites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Large and Small Magellanic Clouds<\/a>, relatively nearby satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The finding may give insight into hot helium stars, which are thought to be the start of neutron star mergers and hydrogen-poor core-collapse supernovae. The study was published this month in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ade4970?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D47054511040119189653971126502813258293%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1703108713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work sheds light on these fascinating relationships, revealing a universe that is far more interconnected and active than we previously imagined,\u201d says Bethany Ludwig, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto and coauthor of the study, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1010623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>. \u201cJust as humans are social beings, stars too, especially the massive ones, are rarely alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observing these types of stars is rare; only one was previously identified. Now, researchers have found a whole population of these stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, relatively nearby satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The finding may give insight into hot helium stars, which are thought to be the start of neutron [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179431","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}