{"id":182489,"date":"2024-02-11T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/old-smokers-and-squalling-newborns-among-hidden-stars-spotted-for-first-time"},"modified":"2024-02-11T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T17:22:55","slug":"old-smokers-and-squalling-newborns-among-hidden-stars-spotted-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/old-smokers-and-squalling-newborns-among-hidden-stars-spotted-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Old Smokers\u2019 and \u2019Squalling Newborns\u2019 among Hidden Stars Spotted for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/old-smokers-and-squalling-newborns-among-hidden-stars-spotted-for-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hidden\u2019 stars including a new type of elderly giant nicknamed an \u2018old smoker\u2019 have been spotted for the first time by astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery objects exist at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy and can sit quietly for decades \u2013 fading almost to invisibility \u2013 before suddenly puffing out clouds of smoke, according to a new study published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists led by Professor Philip Lucas, of the University of Hertfordshire, made their ground-breaking discovery after monitoring almost a billion stars in infrared light during a 10-year survey of the night sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Hidden\u2019 stars including a new type of elderly giant nicknamed an \u2018old smoker\u2019 have been spotted for the first time by astronomers. The mystery objects exist at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy and can sit quietly for decades \u2013 fading almost to invisibility \u2013 before suddenly puffing out clouds of smoke, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182489","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=182489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}