{"id":274238,"date":"2017-02-14T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e7c416cb8e824a9776493e0ce369cc59"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:59:42","slug":"no-close-partner-for-young-massive-stars-in-omega-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=274238","title":{"rendered":"No close partner for young, massive stars in Omega Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from Leuven (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) have discovered that massive stars in the star-forming region M17 (the Omega Nebula) are\u2014against expectations\u2014not part of a close binary. They have started their lives alone or with a distant partner star. The researchers base their findings on data from the X-shooter spectrograph on ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. The study will be published in Astronomy &#038; Astrophysics Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from Leuven (Belgium) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) have discovered that massive stars in the star-forming region M17 (the Omega Nebula) are&mdash;against expectations&mdash;not part of a close binary. They have started their lives alone or with a distant partner star. The researchers base their findings on data from the X-shooter spectrograph on ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. The study will be published in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics Letters.<\/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-274238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274238","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=274238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274239,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274238\/revisions\/274239"}],"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=274238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}