{"id":86693,"date":"2019-01-15T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/this-quadruple-star-system-is-unlike-anything-weve-ever-seen-before"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:05:34","slug":"this-quadruple-star-system-is-unlike-anything-weve-ever-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/this-quadruple-star-system-is-unlike-anything-weve-ever-seen-before","title":{"rendered":"This Quadruple Star System Is Unlike Anything We\u2019ve Ever Seen Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-quadruple-star-system-is-unlike-anything-weve-ever-seen-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered an oddly tilted planet-forming disk within a double binary star system, a configuration that up until this point only existed in theory.<\/p>\n<p>Quadruple star systems featuring two binary pairs are <a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/our-first-glimpse-of-a-quadruple-star-system-in-the-mak-1685379405#_ga=2.126907341.1133880821.1547485440-3674648492.1521482270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nothing unusual<\/a>, nor is the discovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/unprecented-new-image-shows-a-planet-forming-disc-aroun-1655395361#_ga=2.52983656.1133880821.1547485440-3674648492.1521482270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a surrounding protoplanetary disk<\/a>\u2014a ring of gas and dust that gradually congeals to form planets. A star system located 146 light-years from Earth, called HD 98800, has all these things, but as new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-018-0667-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research<\/a> published today in Nature Astronomy reveals, this system features an exceptionally strange protoplanetary disk.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-quadruple-star-system-is-unlike-anything-we-ve-eve-1831747320\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-quadruple-star-system-is-unlike-any...1831747320<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered an oddly tilted planet-forming disk within a double binary star system, a configuration that up until this point only existed in theory. Quadruple star systems featuring two binary pairs are nothing unusual, nor is the discovery of a surrounding protoplanetary disk\u2014a ring of gas and dust that gradually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86693","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=86693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}