{"id":782297,"date":"2024-05-14T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782297"},"modified":"2024-05-14T08:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:50:01","slug":"mystery-of-impossible-star-resolved-by-three-body-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782297","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of &#8216;impossible&#8217; star resolved by three-body solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A white dwarf acts as a lens for the light of the star behind it<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The mystery of a star that seemed too small to exist has been solved \u2013 by the detection of another star hiding in the same system.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, astronomers announced the discovery of an unusual system called KIC 8145411 in which a white dwarf \u2013 the dull, compact remnant left behind after certain stars exhaust their nuclear fuel \u2013 was orbiting a sun-like star every 450 days. The system is a rare example of a self-lensing binary,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2430715-mystery-of-impossible-star-resolved-by-three-body-solution\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white dwarf acts as a lens for the light of the star behind it NASA\/JPL-Caltech The mystery of a star that seemed too small to exist has been solved&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782297","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=782297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/782298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}