{"id":258412,"date":"2017-01-06T13:20:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2f832fc5bcab80074e8bd612298ec90a"},"modified":"2017-01-06T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:20:45","slug":"the-case-of-the-missing-link-neutron-star-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=258412","title":{"rendered":"The case of the &#8216;missing link&#8217; neutron star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit &#8220;skeleton&#8221; of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called PSR J1119-6127, has been caught behaving like two distinct objects\u2014a radio pulsar and a magnetar\u2014and could be important to understanding their evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit &#8220;skeleton&#8221; of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called PSR J1119-6127, has been caught behaving like two distinct objects&mdash;a radio pulsar and a magnetar&mdash;and could be important to understanding their evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258413,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258412\/revisions\/258413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}