{"id":243127,"date":"2026-08-24T17:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/meteorite-dust-holds-records-of-magnetism-that-may-have-helped-form-the-sun"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:05:45","slug":"meteorite-dust-holds-records-of-magnetism-that-may-have-helped-form-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/meteorite-dust-holds-records-of-magnetism-that-may-have-helped-form-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meteorite-dust-holds-records-of-magnetism-that-may-have-helped-form-the-sun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million years, this \u201csolar nebula\u201d underwent a huge transformation, flattening into a disk of matter that then condensed to form the central sun and orbiting planets.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have assumed that the early solar system was shaped mainly through gravity. But a new study finds that magnetism also likely played a role.<\/p>\n<p>MIT scientists have discovered records of ancient magnetism in the oldest samples of meteorites known today. The team analyzed microscopic grains embedded in a meteorite that was discovered in Antarctica in 2008. These grains, called calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, or CAIs, originally formed during the solar system\u2019s first 200,000 years, making the samples the oldest known solar system material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million years, this \u201csolar nebula\u201d underwent a huge transformation, flattening into a disk of matter that then condensed to form the central sun and orbiting planets. Scientists have assumed that the early solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243127","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=243127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}