{"id":291820,"date":"2017-03-24T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=df053ccfa44612775e5fce4601d41ae8"},"modified":"2017-03-24T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:10:01","slug":"the-surprising-discovery-of-a-new-class-of-pulsating-x-ray-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=291820","title":{"rendered":"The surprising discovery of a new class of pulsating X-ray stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising new class of X-ray pulsating variable stars has been discovered by a team of American and Canadian astronomers led by Villanova University&#8217;s Scott Engle and Edward Guinan.  Part of the Villanova Secret Lives of Cepheids program, the new X-ray observations, obtained by NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Observatory and published Thursday, March 23rd in the Astrophysical Journal, reveal that the bright prototype of Classical Cepheids, d Cephei, is a periodic pulsed X-ray source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising new class of X-ray pulsating variable stars has been discovered by a team of American and Canadian astronomers led by Villanova University&#8217;s Scott Engle and Edward Guinan.  Part of the Villanova Secret Lives of Cepheids program, the new X-&#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-291820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291820","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=291820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291821,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291820\/revisions\/291821"}],"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=291820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}