{"id":3923490,"date":"2026-01-07T22:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/plasma-rings-around-m-dwarf-stars-offer-new-clues-to-planetary-habitability\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:03:36","slug":"plasma-rings-around-m-dwarf-stars-offer-new-clues-to-planetary-habitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/plasma-rings-around-m-dwarf-stars-offer-new-clues-to-planetary-habitability\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasma rings around M dwarf stars offer new clues to planetary habitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie&#8217;s Luke Bouma is exploring a new way to probe this critical question\u2014using naturally occurring space weather stations that orbit at least 10% of M dwarf stars during their early lives. He is presenting his work at the 247th American Astronomical Society meeting.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-plasma-dwarf-stars-clues-planetary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie&#8217;s Luke Bouma is exploring a new way to probe this critical question\u2014using naturally occurring space weather stations that orbit at least 10% of M dwarf stars during their early lives. He is presenting [&#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-3923490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923490","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=3923490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}