{"id":792853,"date":"2025-01-21T03:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T08:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792853"},"modified":"2025-01-21T03:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T08:21:06","slug":"weird-icy-balls-in-space-could-be-a-totally-new-kind-of-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792853","title":{"rendered":"Weird icy balls in space could be a totally new kind of star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Images of the two peculiar icy objects captured by the ALMA radio telescope<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Takashi Shimonishi\/Niigata University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two strange, icy objects in our galaxy that look unlike anything astronomers have ever seen could be an entirely new kind of star.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Takashi Shimonishi at Niigata University in Japan and his colleagues spotted what appeared to be two icy balls of gas in roughly the same patch of sky, but separated by a large enough distance to be unrelated to each other.<\/p>\n<p>The objects\u2019 properties were baffling. They looked like\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2464596-weird-icy-balls-in-space-could-be-a-totally-new-kind-of-star\/?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>Images of the two peculiar icy objects captured by the ALMA radio telescope Takashi Shimonishi\/Niigata University Two strange, icy objects in our galaxy that look unlike anything astronomers have ever&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792853","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\/792853","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=792853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}