{"id":194100,"date":"2024-08-06T02:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/first-ever-sighting-neutron-stars-bizarre-garden-sprinkler-jet-captured"},"modified":"2024-08-06T02:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:23:50","slug":"first-ever-sighting-neutron-stars-bizarre-garden-sprinkler-jet-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/first-ever-sighting-neutron-stars-bizarre-garden-sprinkler-jet-captured","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever Sighting: Neutron Star\u2019s Bizarre \u201cGarden Sprinkler\u201d Jet Captured"},"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\/y_K9L2hnUn8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of a neutron star emitting a \u2018garden sprinkler-like\u2019 S-shaped jet in the binary system Circinus X-1, located over 30,000 light-years away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This phenomenon, similar to precession observed in black holes, illustrates the jet\u2019s direction change due to the gravitational pull from a disc of hot gas. The discovery was made using the MeerKAT radio telescope, and the findings provide insights into the dynamics of neutron stars and the mechanics of jet launching.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A strange \u2018garden sprinkler-like\u2019 jet coming from a neutron star has been pictured for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of a neutron star emitting a \u2018garden sprinkler-like\u2019 S-shaped jet in the binary system Circinus X-1, located over 30,000 light-years away. This phenomenon, similar to precession observed in black holes, illustrates the jet\u2019s direction change due to the gravitational pull from a disc of hot gas. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194100","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=194100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}