{"id":225312,"date":"2025-11-18T01:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/astronomers-reveal-flat-diamond-ring-in-cygnus-x-is-a-burst-bubble-remnant"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:20:52","slug":"astronomers-reveal-flat-diamond-ring-in-cygnus-x-is-a-burst-bubble-remnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/astronomers-reveal-flat-diamond-ring-in-cygnus-x-is-a-burst-bubble-remnant","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers reveal flat \u2018Diamond Ring\u2019 in Cygnus X is a burst bubble remnant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-reveal-flat-diamond-ring-in-cygnus-x-is-a-burst-bubble-remnant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the \u201cDiamond Ring\u201d in the star-forming region Cygnus X, a huge, ring-shaped structure made of gas and dust that resembles a glowing diamond ring. In similar structures, the formations are not flat but spherical in shape. How this special shape came about was previously unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The results have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202556159\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> under the title \u201cThe Diamond Ring in Cygnus X: an advanced stage of an expanding bubble of ionized carbon\u201d in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the \u201cDiamond Ring\u201d in the star-forming region Cygnus X, a huge, ring-shaped structure made of gas and dust that resembles a glowing diamond ring. In similar structures, the formations are not flat but spherical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225312","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=225312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}