{"id":204491,"date":"2025-01-24T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/astronomers-discover-a-star-so-massive-that-its-forming-a-tiny-star-around-it-rather-than-planets"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:36:12","slug":"astronomers-discover-a-star-so-massive-that-its-forming-a-tiny-star-around-it-rather-than-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/astronomers-discover-a-star-so-massive-that-its-forming-a-tiny-star-around-it-rather-than-planets","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover a star so massive that its forming a tiny star around it rather than planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-a-star-so-massive-that-its-forming-a-tiny-star-around-it-rather-than-planets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A Massive Star\u2019s Unusual Formation Surprise<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary discovery in the formation of stars, observing a colossal young star, MM 1a, forming a smaller companion star, MM 1b, instead of planets. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers identified MM 1b on the outskirts of MM 1a\u2019s dense disk of dust and gas, a region traditionally associated with planet formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Massive Star\u2019s Unusual Formation Surprise Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary discovery in the formation of stars, observing a colossal young star, MM 1a, forming a smaller companion star, MM 1b, instead of planets. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers identified MM 1b on the outskirts of MM 1a\u2019s dense disk of dust [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204491","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=204491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}