{"id":2776,"date":"2025-10-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:56:51","slug":"the-corpse-of-a-long-dead-star-surprises-astronomers-by-eating-a-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/the-corpse-of-a-long-dead-star-surprises-astronomers-by-eating-a-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"The corpse of a long-dead star surprises astronomers by eating a planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-corpse-of-a-long-dead-star-surprises-astronomers-by-eati_2d63.640.jpg\">Here&#x27;s what it says about the future of our own solar system.<\/p>\n<p>A dead star core about 145 <u><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/how-long-is-a-light-year\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light-years<\/a><\/u> away in <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\">space<\/a><\/u> is doing anything but resting in peace. <\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have learned that this <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/18096\/spectacular-webb-telescope-image-shows-a-stellar-death-like-never-before\">white dwarf<\/a><\/u>, the remnant of a medium-size star after running out of nuclear fuel, has gobbled up <u><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/james-webb-space-telescope-rocky-exoplanets-atmospheres\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a rocky planet<\/a><\/u> \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#x27;s what it says about the future of our own solar system. A dead star core about 145<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}