{"id":4676,"date":"2017-08-24T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:40:50","slug":"astronomers-capture-detailed-images-distant-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/astronomers-capture-detailed-images-distant-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers capture detailed images of distant star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of the surface and atmosphere of a star outside the solar system, a report said.<!--more-->Images of Antares, a red supergiant, more than 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpio, have been captured, reported Nature magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The team obtained the images using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope, a complex of four telescopes perched on a mountain in the Paranal desert of Chile, Efe news said.<\/p>\n<p>The star makes an interesting object for study because it is rapidly losing mass in the course of an outward expansion that will lead eventually to a supernova.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow stars like Antares lose mass so quickly in the final phase of their evolution has been a problem for over half a century,\u201d the paper\u2019s lead author, Keiichi Ohnaka of Chile\u2019s Universidad Catolica del Norte, said.<\/p>\n<p>The images allowed the team to detect unexpected turbulence in the outer atmosphere of Antares\u2014activity that could not be explained by any known processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next challenge is to identify what\u2019s driving the turbulent motions,\u201d Ohnaka said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of the surface and atmosphere of a star outside the solar system, a report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}