{"id":577041,"date":"2019-02-08T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6b5276ae2923a3e2ec90904a6d2e7c1e"},"modified":"2019-02-08T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:00:03","slug":"from-supergiant-to-solar-mass-star-study-finds-hd-179821-less-massive-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=577041","title":{"rendered":"From supergiant to solar-mass star: Study finds HD 179821 less massive than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) star known as HD 179821 turns out to be significantly less massive than previously thought, according to a new study. Using new data from ESA&#8217;s Gaia satellite, astronomers found that HD 179821 is not a supergiant, which was suggested by previous observations, but is rather a solar-mass star. The finding is presented in a paper published January 28 on arXiv.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) star known as HD 179821 turns out to be significantly less massive than previously thought, according to a new study. Using new data from ESA&#8217;s Gaia satellite, astronomers found that HD 179821 is not a supergia&#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-577041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577041","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=577041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577042,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577041\/revisions\/577042"}],"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=577041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}