{"id":187155,"date":"2024-04-11T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/researchers-find-baby-stars-discharge-plume-like-sneezes-of-magnetic-flux-during-formation"},"modified":"2024-04-11T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:24:38","slug":"researchers-find-baby-stars-discharge-plume-like-sneezes-of-magnetic-flux-during-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/researchers-find-baby-stars-discharge-plume-like-sneezes-of-magnetic-flux-during-formation","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find baby stars discharge plume-like \u2018sneezes\u2019 of magnetic flux during formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-find-baby-stars-discharge-plume-like-sneezes-of-magnetic-flux-during-formation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kyushu University researchers have shed new light into a critical question on how baby stars develop. Using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, the team found that in its infancy, the protostellar disk that surrounds a baby star discharges plumes of dust, gas, and electromagnetic energy.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201csneezes,\u201d as the researchers describe them, release the magnetic flux within the protostellar <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/disk\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">disk<\/a>, and may be a vital part of star formation. Their findings were published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ad2f9a\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Astrophysical Journal<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stars, including our sun, all develop from what are called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/stellar+nurseries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stellar nurseries<\/a>, large concentrations of gas and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dust\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dust<\/a> that eventually condense to form a stellar core, a baby star. During this process, gas and dust form a ring around the baby star called the protostellar disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyushu University researchers have shed new light into a critical question on how baby stars develop. Using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, the team found that in its infancy, the protostellar disk that surrounds a baby star discharges plumes of dust, gas, and electromagnetic energy. These \u201csneezes,\u201d as the researchers describe them, release the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187155","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}