{"id":294786,"date":"2017-03-30T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=022bd08357ed9bbcb0d4d282d03fc7d4"},"modified":"2017-03-30T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:09:20","slug":"speeding-star-gives-new-clues-to-breakup-of-multi-star-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=294786","title":{"rendered":"Speeding star gives new clues to breakup of multi-star system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable new discovery using NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope reveals three stars that now hold the record as the youngest-known examples of a super-fast-flying breed. &#8220;Until these observations, only a few\u2014but older\u2014examples of such rapidly-moving stars had been found with origins traceable back to the volatile systems that likely ejected them,&#8221; said lead researcher Kevin Luhman of Penn State University. &#8220;The new Hubble observations provide very strong evidence that these three stars were ejected from an unstable multi-star system.&#8221; The new discovery is published in this month&#8217;s Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable new discovery using NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope reveals three stars that now hold the record as the youngest-known examples of a super-fast-flying breed. &#8220;Until these observations, only a few&mdash;but older&mdash;examples of such rapidly-moving stars had been found with origins traceable back to the volatile systems that likely ejected them,&#8221; said lead researcher Kevin Luhman of Penn State University. &#8220;The new Hubble observations provide very strong evidence that these three stars were ejected from an unstable multi-star system.&#8221; The new discovery is published in this month&#8217;s Astrophysical Journal 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-294786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294786","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=294786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294787,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294786\/revisions\/294787"}],"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=294786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}