{"id":445541,"date":"2018-02-27T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=80a45213fb20771ea30b99eeb283066b"},"modified":"2018-02-27T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T13:00:28","slug":"xmm-newton-spies-first-clear-x-ray-flares-from-massive-stellar-lighthouse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=445541","title":{"rendered":"XMM-Newton spies first clear X-ray flares from massive stellar lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, ESA&#8217;s XMM-Newton spotted X-rays emanating from the massive star Rho Ophiuchi A and, last year, found these to ebb and flow periodically in the form of intense flares \u2013 both unexpected results. The team has now used ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope to find that the star boasts a strong magnetic field, confirming its status as a cosmic lighthouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, ESA&#8217;s XMM-Newton spotted X-rays emanating from the massive star Rho Ophiuchi A and, last year, found these to ebb and flow periodically in the form of intense flares &ndash; both unexpected results. The team has now used ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope to find that the star boasts a strong magnetic field, confirming its status as a cosmic lighthouse.<\/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-445541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445541","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=445541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445542,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445541\/revisions\/445542"}],"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=445541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}