{"id":85025,"date":"2018-11-22T23:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T07:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/massive-triple-star-system-creates-this-bizarre-swirling-pinwheel-of-dust-and-it-could-be-the-site-of-a-gamma-ray-burst"},"modified":"2018-11-22T23:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T07:22:53","slug":"massive-triple-star-system-creates-this-bizarre-swirling-pinwheel-of-dust-and-it-could-be-the-site-of-a-gamma-ray-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/massive-triple-star-system-creates-this-bizarre-swirling-pinwheel-of-dust-and-it-could-be-the-site-of-a-gamma-ray-burst","title":{"rendered":"Massive Triple Star System Creates this Bizarre Swirling Pinwheel of Dust. And it Could be the Site of a Gamma Ray Burst"},"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\/CqTWI-qCP44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When stars reach the end of their lifespan, many undergo gravitational collapse and explode into a supernova, In some cases, they collapse to become black holes and release a tremendous amount of energy in a short amount of time. These are what is known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/science\/grb\/\">gamma-ray bursts<\/a> (GRBs), and they are one of the most powerful events in the known Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, an international team of astronomers was able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso1838\/\">capture an image<\/a> of a newly-discovered triple star system surrounded by a \u201cpinwheel\u201d of dust. This system, nicknamed \u201cApep\u201d, is located roughly 8,000 light years from Earth and destined to become a long-duration GRB. In addition, it is the first of its kind to be discovered in our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>The study which describes the team\u2019s findings was recently published in the scientific journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-018-0617-7\">Nature<\/a>. <\/em>The team was led by Joseph R. Callingham, a postdoctoral fellow from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astron.nl\/\">Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy<\/a> (ASTRON), and included members from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/science\/our-research\/research-centres\/sydney-institute-for-astronomy.html\">Sydney Institute for Astronomy<\/a> (SIfA), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roe.ac.uk\/\">Royal Observatory Edinburgh<\/a>, the University of Sheffield and the University of New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/140619\/massive-triple-star-system-creates-this-bizarre-swirling-pinwheel-of-dust-and-it-could-be-the-site-of-a-gamma-ray-burst\/\">https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/140619\/massive-triple-star-sys...ray-burst\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When stars reach the end of their lifespan, many undergo gravitational collapse and explode into a supernova, In some cases, they collapse to become black holes and release a tremendous amount of energy in a short amount of time. These are what is known as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and they are one of the most [\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-85025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85025","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=85025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}