{"id":3924159,"date":"2026-02-27T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-study-in-stardust-massive-binary-stars-emit-tiny-carbon-particles\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:00:28","slug":"a-study-in-stardust-massive-binary-stars-emit-tiny-carbon-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-study-in-stardust-massive-binary-stars-emit-tiny-carbon-particles\/","title":{"rendered":"A study in stardust: Massive binary stars emit tiny carbon particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Yale junior Donglin Wu leads a new study showing that some of the biggest stars in the universe shed some of the smallest dust particles. It&#8217;s fitting that Wu&#8217;s first major scientific journal article as lead author focuses on stardust\u2014tiny solid grains that form from stellar winds, drift into interstellar space, and may eventually become parts of new planets.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-stardust-massive-binary-stars-emit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale junior Donglin Wu leads a new study showing that some of the biggest stars in the universe shed some of the smallest dust particles. It&#8217;s fitting that Wu&#8217;s first major scientific journal article as lead author focuses on stardust\u2014tiny solid grains that form from stellar winds, drift into interstellar space, and may eventually become [&#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-3924159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924159","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=3924159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}