{"id":226250,"date":"2025-12-01T20:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/close-brush-with-two-hot-stars-millions-of-years-ago-left-a-mark-just-beyond-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:03:38","slug":"close-brush-with-two-hot-stars-millions-of-years-ago-left-a-mark-just-beyond-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/close-brush-with-two-hot-stars-millions-of-years-ago-left-a-mark-just-beyond-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Close brush with two hot stars millions of years ago left a mark just beyond our solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/close-brush-with-two-hot-stars-millions-of-years-ago-left-a-mark-just-beyond-our-solar-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth\u2019s sun. They left behind a trace in the clouds of gas and dust that swirl just beyond our solar system\u2014almost like the scent of perfume after someone has left the room.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one finding from new research led by Michael Shull, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder, and <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ae10a6\" target=\"_blank\">published Nov. 24<\/a> in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The study sheds new light on the details of Earth\u2019s neighborhood in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth\u2019s sun. They left behind a trace in the clouds of gas and dust that swirl just beyond our solar system\u2014almost like the scent of perfume after someone has left the room. That\u2019s one finding from new research led by Michael Shull, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226250","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}