{"id":3921728,"date":"2025-09-04T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/zooming-in-on-pismis-24-webb-gets-glittering-glimpse-of-star-birth\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:03:22","slug":"zooming-in-on-pismis-24-webb-gets-glittering-glimpse-of-star-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/zooming-in-on-pismis-24-webb-gets-glittering-glimpse-of-star-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Zooming in on Pismis 24, Webb gets glittering glimpse of star birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This dramatic scene captured by NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope looks like a fantastical tableau from J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings. But truth is even stranger than fiction. In reality, what appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being sculpted by the scorching radiation and punishing winds of massive newborn stars.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-pismis-webb-glittering-glimpse-star.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This dramatic scene captured by NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope looks like a fantastical tableau from J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings. But truth is even stranger than fiction. In reality, what appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being sculpted by the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}