{"id":216202,"date":"2025-06-18T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/by-measuring-gases-around-young-stars-astronomers-unlock-major-clues-to-planet-formation"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:04:26","slug":"by-measuring-gases-around-young-stars-astronomers-unlock-major-clues-to-planet-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/by-measuring-gases-around-young-stars-astronomers-unlock-major-clues-to-planet-formation","title":{"rendered":"By measuring gases around young stars, astronomers unlock major clues to planet formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/by-measuring-gases-around-young-stars-astronomers-unlock-major-clues-to-planet-formation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison has produced the most accurate measurement of the gases swirling around young stars and how their mass changes over time. The discovery joins many pieces of a puzzle that may reveal which kinds of planets form\u2014rocky Earth-types, gas giants like Jupiter, or balls of ice in the Neptune mold\u2014as star systems mature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison has produced the most accurate measurement of the gases swirling around young stars and how their mass changes over time. The discovery joins many pieces of a puzzle that may reveal which kinds of planets form\u2014rocky Earth-types, gas giants like Jupiter, or [\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-216202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216202","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=216202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}