{"id":80088,"date":"2018-06-28T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/astronomers-capture-moment-of-interstellar-conception"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:01:15","slug":"astronomers-capture-moment-of-interstellar-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/astronomers-capture-moment-of-interstellar-conception","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers capture moment of interstellar conception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B94yHU-e5_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>IT\u2019S a moment of conception on an interstellar scale. Australian astronomers have watched the death \u2014 and rebirth \u2014 of a distant solar system. Now they\u2019re watching its embryonic nebula form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atnf.csiro.au\/people\/Lisa.Harvey-Smith\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith of the CSIRO<\/a> has told the annual meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/asa2018.swin.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomical Society of Australia<\/a> hosted at Swinburne University this week that the opportunity to observe the climactic phase in the life cycle of a star was extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>The cycle of a star\u2019s life begins as it ends.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/science\/space\/the-moment-of-death-and-rebirth-of-a-supergiant-star-captured-by-australian-astronomers\/news-story\/0c509aad47b63765edaaab82bdc44e4f\">https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/science\/space\/the-moment-...82bdc44e4f<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT\u2019S a moment of conception on an interstellar scale. Australian astronomers have watched the death \u2014 and rebirth \u2014 of a distant solar system. Now they\u2019re watching its embryonic nebula form. Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith of the CSIRO has told the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia hosted at Swinburne University this week that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80088","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=80088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80222,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80088\/revisions\/80222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}