{"id":193939,"date":"2024-08-02T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T01:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/how-do-stars-really-die"},"modified":"2024-08-02T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T01:47:04","slug":"how-do-stars-really-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/how-do-stars-really-die","title":{"rendered":"How Do Stars Really Die?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mj06h8BeeOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/phil-plait\/\">Phil Plait<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very soon now, possibly in a few days, though more likely in the next few weeks, a new star will appear in our sky\u2014except it\u2019s <i>really<\/i> an old star. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/this-nova-will-soon-erupt-as-a-once-in-a-lifetime-new-star-in-the-night-sky\/\">Called T Coronae Borealis<\/a> (or T Cor Bor), it\u2019s a binary system composed of a huge red giant star and a tiny white dwarf. Though small, white dwarfs are vicious: They pack much of a solar-type star\u2019s mass into an approximately Earth-sized sphere. This makes them terrifically dense and hot, and they possess a fierce gravitational attraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang. By Phil Plait Very soon now, possibly in a few days, though more likely in the next few weeks, a new star will appear in our sky\u2014except it\u2019s really an old [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193939","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}