{"id":223817,"date":"2025-10-23T04:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/magnetically-guided-streamer-funneling-star-building-material-into-newborn-system-in-perseus"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:19:39","slug":"magnetically-guided-streamer-funneling-star-building-material-into-newborn-system-in-perseus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/magnetically-guided-streamer-funneling-star-building-material-into-newborn-system-in-perseus","title":{"rendered":"Magnetically guided streamer funneling star-building material into newborn system in Perseus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetically-guided-streamer-funneling-star-building-material-into-newborn-system-in-perseus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers led by Paulo Cortes, a scientist with the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Joint ALMA Observatory, have made a groundbreaking discovery about how young star systems grow.<\/p>\n<p>Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), their team observed\u2014 for the first time ever\u2014 a narrow, spiral-shaped streamer of gas guided by magnetic fields, channeling matter from the surrounding cloud of a star-forming region in Perseus, directly onto a newborn <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/binary+star+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">binary star system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/ae0c04\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers led by Paulo Cortes, a scientist with the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Joint ALMA Observatory, have made a groundbreaking discovery about how young star systems grow. Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), their team observed\u2014 for the first time ever\u2014 a narrow, spiral-shaped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223817","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=223817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}