{"id":644272,"date":"2020-01-24T12:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=644272"},"modified":"2020-01-24T12:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:24:59","slug":"nasas-kepler-witnesses-vampire-star-system-undergoing-super-outburst-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=644272","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#039;s Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star&#8217;s face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spotting other astronomical transients\u2014objects that brighten or dim over time. A new search of Kepler archival data has uncovered an unusual super-outburst from a previously unknown dwarf nova. The system brightened by a factor of 1,600 over less than a day before slowly fading away.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-01-nasa-kepler-witnesses-vampire-star.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA&#8217;s Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star&#8217;s face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spotting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644272","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644272\/revisions"}],"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=644272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}