{"id":205758,"date":"2025-02-06T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/dusting-for-a-young-stars-magnetic-fingerprint-illuminates-planet-formation"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:13:17","slug":"dusting-for-a-young-stars-magnetic-fingerprint-illuminates-planet-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/dusting-for-a-young-stars-magnetic-fingerprint-illuminates-planet-formation","title":{"rendered":"Dusting for a young star\u2019s magnetic fingerprint illuminates planet formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dusting-for-a-young-stars-magnetic-fingerprint-illuminates-planet-formation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought to be forming. The team was able to use dust to measure the three-dimensional structure \u201cfingerprint\u201d of the magnetic field. This will help improve our understanding of planet formation.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-024-02454-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>Planets form in turbulent disks of gas and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dust\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dust<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protoplanetary+disks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protoplanetary disks<\/a> around <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/young+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">young stars<\/a>. It is thought that the first step in planet formation is dust grains colliding and sticking together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought to be forming. The team was able to use dust to measure the three-dimensional structure \u201cfingerprint\u201d of the magnetic field. This will help improve our understanding of planet formation. The study is published in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205758","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}