{"id":291755,"date":"2017-03-24T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d3d360e1ae62b86fceeb5f4c40ddf3dd"},"modified":"2017-03-24T08:40:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:40:02","slug":"astronomers-identify-purest-most-massive-brown-dwarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=291755","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers identify purest, most massive brown dwarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the &#8216;purest&#8217; composition and the highest mass yet known. The object, known as SDSS J0104+1535, is a member of the so-called halo \u2013 the outermost reaches &#8211; of our Galaxy, made up of the most ancient stars. The scientists report the discovery in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the &#8216;purest&#8217; composition and the highest mass yet known. The object, known as SDSS J0104+1535, is a member of the so-called halo &ndash; the outermost reaches &#8211; of our Galaxy, made up of the most ancient stars. The scientists report the discovery in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/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-291755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291755","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=291755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291756,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291755\/revisions\/291756"}],"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=291755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}