{"id":745262,"date":"2023-01-10T20:14:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=745262"},"modified":"2023-01-10T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T00:14:20","slug":"the-seven-year-photobomb-distant-stars-dimming-was-likely-a-dusty-companion-getting-in-the-way-astronomers-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=745262","title":{"rendered":"The seven-year photobomb: Distant star&#039;s dimming was likely a &#039;dusty&#039; companion getting in the way, astronomers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers were on the lookout for &#8216;stars behaving strangely&#8217; when an automated alert from pointed them to Gaia17bpp, a star that had gradually brightened over a 2 1\/2-year period. But follow-up analyses indicated that Gaia17bpp wasn&#8217;t changing. Instead, the star is likely part of a rare type of binary system. Its apparent brightening was the end of a years-long eclipse by an unusual, &#8216;dusty&#8217; stellar companion.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/01\/230110191420.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The seven-year photobomb: Distant star&#8217;s dimming was likely a &#8216;dusty&#8217; companion getting in the way, astronomers say<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers were on the lookout for &#8216;stars behaving strangely&#8217; when an automated alert from pointed them to Gaia17bpp, a star that had gradually brightened over a 2 1\/2-year period. But&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745262","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=745262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745262\/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=745262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}