{"id":487835,"date":"2018-06-19T07:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=024a09c13bb6872b865ef2092b13fcec"},"modified":"2018-06-19T07:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:58:47","slug":"new-tech-uses-isomeric-beams-to-study-how-and-where-the-galaxy-makes-one-of-its-most-common-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=487835","title":{"rendered":"New tech uses isomeric beams to study how and where the galaxy makes one of its most common elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our galaxy produces and destroys the element aluminum-26 in the process of making magnesium-26. As it forms, it can be momentarily &#8220;stuck&#8221; in a mirror-image (isomeric) state. Getting stuck lets other reactions occur that destroy the element. Measuring how much aluminum-26 the galaxy makes is tough because scientists have to know how much is destroyed. For the first time, scientists produced an aluminum-26 beam in an isomeric state. They used the beam to determine how fast aluminum-26 is destroyed. The resulting study offers the first experimental result for aluminum-26 synthesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our galaxy produces and destroys the element aluminum-26 in the process of making magnesium-26. As it forms, it can be momentarily &#8220;stuck&#8221; in a mirror-image (isomeric) state. Getting stuck lets other reactions occur that destroy the element. Measuring &#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-487835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487835","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=487835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487836,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487835\/revisions\/487836"}],"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=487835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}