{"id":284210,"date":"2017-03-08T03:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4f233ccb58cd036205bcad6ccb316a4f"},"modified":"2017-03-08T03:02:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T07:02:52","slug":"iota-orionis-pulsating-beacon-of-a-constellation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=284210","title":{"rendered":"Iota Orionis: Pulsating beacon of a constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) Constellation project and Ritter Observatory have discovered a repeating one-per-cent spike in the light of a very massive star which could change our understanding of such stars. Iota Orionis is a binary star system and is easily visible with the naked eye, being the brightest star in the constellation Orion&#8217;s sword. Its unique variability, reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, was discovered using the world&#8217;s smallest astronomical space satellites, referred to as &#8220;nanosats&#8221;. &#8220;As the first functional nanosatellite astronomy mission, the BRITE-Constellation is at the vanguard of this coming space revolution,&#8221; said Canadian BRITE-Constellation principal investigator Gregg Wade, of Royal Military College of Canada, Ont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the BRITE (BRight Target Explorer) Constellation project and Ritter Observatory have discovered a repeating one-per-cent spike in the light of a very massive star which could change our understanding of such stars. Iota Orionis is a bi&#8230;<\/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-284210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284210","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=284210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284211,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284210\/revisions\/284211"}],"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=284210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}