{"id":511,"date":"2025-06-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2025-06-12T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:50:19","slug":"a-tiny-star-gave-birth-to-an-absolute-giant-scientists-are-puzzled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/a-tiny-star-gave-birth-to-an-absolute-giant-scientists-are-puzzled\/","title":{"rendered":"A tiny star gave birth to an absolute giant. Scientists are puzzled."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a-tiny-star-gave-birth-to-an-absolute-giant-scientists-are-p_edy1.640.jpg\">Size matters, at least when it comes to planet formation.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a world outside the solar system about 240 <u><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/how-long-is-a-light-year\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light-years<\/a><\/u> away in <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a><\/u> that is a freak of nature. <\/p>\n<p>Somehow, a little <u><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/james-webb-space-telescope-rocky-exoplanets-atmospheres\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">red dwarf star<\/a><\/u> only one-fifth the size of the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/35248\/how-hot-is-the-sun-its-a-tricky-question-even-for-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sun<\/a><\/u> gave birth to an enormous baby \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Size matters, at least when it comes to planet formation. Astronomers have discovered a world outside the solar system about 240 light-years away in space that is a freak of nature. Somehow, a little red dwarf star only one-fifth the size of the sun gave birth to an enormous baby \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}