{"id":220533,"date":"2022-12-31T19:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=220533"},"modified":"2022-12-31T19:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:10:52","slug":"omega-centauri-indian-institute-of-astrophysics-team-surprised-by-their-discovery-on-hot-stars-and-white-dwarfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/omega-centauri-indian-institute-of-astrophysics-team-surprised-by-their-discovery-on-hot-stars-and-white-dwarfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Omega Centauri: Indian Institute of Astrophysics team surprised by their discovery on hot stars and white dwarfs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndian Institute of Astrophysics team surprised by their discovery on hot stars and white dwarfs\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 30th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics(IIA) while studying Omega Centauri have found strange hot stars that emitted less ultraviolet radiation than expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These strange hot stars were detected in the cluster using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) images on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-satellite-astrosat-makes-rare-discovery\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AstroSat.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is <\/b><b>Omega Centauri?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omega Centauri is the most massive globular cluster system in our galaxy.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in the southern constellation Centaurus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It contains approximately 10 million stars and is about 16,000 light-years away.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also includes stars of a variety of ages, whereas other globular clusters contain stars from only one generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Globular Clusters?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globular clusters are spherical aggregates of several thousand to millions of stars bound by gravity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These systems are thought to have formed early on in the Universe and can serve as perfect astrophysical laboratories for astronomers to understand how stars evolve through various phases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndian Institute of Astrophysics team surprised by their discovery on hot stars and white dwarfs\u201d published in PIB on 30th December 2022 What is the News? Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics(IIA) while studying Omega Centauri have found strange hot stars that emitted less ultraviolet radiation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/omega-centauri-indian-institute-of-astrophysics-team-surprised-by-their-discovery-on-hot-stars-and-white-dwarfs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Omega Centauri: Indian Institute of Astrophysics team surprised by their discovery on hot stars and white dwarfs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-220533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}