{"id":82811,"date":"2018-09-19T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/weird-infrared-signal-emanates-across-space-but-what-created-it"},"modified":"2018-09-19T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:02:24","slug":"weird-infrared-signal-emanates-across-space-but-what-created-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/weird-infrared-signal-emanates-across-space-but-what-created-it","title":{"rendered":"Weird Infrared Signal Emanates Across Space, But What Created It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weird-infrared-signal-emanates-across-space-but-what-created-it.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space is filled with bizarre signals that we scramble to put meaning to \u2014 and now, researchers have detected yet another mysterious signal. This one emanated from near a neutron star, and for the first time, it\u2019s infrared.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s nearby that could have created the weird signal? Scientists have a few ideas.<\/p>\n<p>When a star reaches the end of its life, it typically undergoes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/42791-supernova-star-explosion-amateur-photos.html\">supernova explosion<\/a>\u2014 the star collapses, and if it has enough mass, it will form a black hole. But if the star isn\u2019t massive enough, it will form a neutron star. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/11425-photos-supernovas-star-explosions.html\">Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41870-mysterious-infrared-signal-space.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/41870-mysterious-infrared-signal-space.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space is filled with bizarre signals that we scramble to put meaning to \u2014 and now, researchers have detected yet another mysterious signal. This one emanated from near a neutron star, and for the first time, it\u2019s infrared. So, what\u2019s nearby that could have created the weird signal? Scientists have a few ideas. When a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82811","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=82811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}