{"id":86081,"date":"2018-12-24T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/astronomers-spot-baby-star-emitting-huge-flare-in-a-stellar-tantrum"},"modified":"2018-12-24T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T21:22:21","slug":"astronomers-spot-baby-star-emitting-huge-flare-in-a-stellar-tantrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/astronomers-spot-baby-star-emitting-huge-flare-in-a-stellar-tantrum","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers spot baby star emitting huge flare in a stellar \u2018tantrum\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2017\/09\/11\/8533913282319464264\/1024x576_MP4_8533913282319464264.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have spotted a monstrous stellar flare coming from a baby star 685 light-years away that\u2019s estimated to be 10,000 times larger than any such event emitted by our sun.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the stellar \u2018tantrum\u2019 could provide a window into the birth of potentially habitable exoplanets, revealing how huge events shake up the material orbiting distant stars.<\/p>\n<p>The M-type star is just 2 million years old, meaning it has yet to reach the size at which it will remain for most of its life.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6521617\/Astronomers-spot-baby-star-emitting-flare-10-000-times-larger-created-sun.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6521617\/Astr...mailonline<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have spotted a monstrous stellar flare coming from a baby star 685 light-years away that\u2019s estimated to be 10,000 times larger than any such event emitted by our sun. Experts say the stellar \u2018tantrum\u2019 could provide a window into the birth of potentially habitable exoplanets, revealing how huge events shake up the material orbiting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86081","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\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}