{"id":3925258,"date":"2026-04-02T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/protostars-sneeze-and-produce-rings-of-gas-and-magnetic-flux-as-they-grow\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:00:30","slug":"protostars-sneeze-and-produce-rings-of-gas-and-magnetic-flux-as-they-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/protostars-sneeze-and-produce-rings-of-gas-and-magnetic-flux-as-they-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Protostars &#8216;sneeze&#8217; and produce rings of gas and magnetic flux as they grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers have uncovered new insights into the early development of baby stars. As published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team from Kyushu University and Kagawa University reports that during the early growth period of a baby star, the protostellar disk\u2014the dense disk of gas and dust that surrounds the star\u2014expels magnetic flux and forms a giant warm ring of gas about 1,000 au (astronomical units) in size. The research team explains that these &#8220;sneezes&#8221; of matter and magnetic energy help the baby star release excess energy, leading to proper star formation.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-protostars-gas-magnetic-flux.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have uncovered new insights into the early development of baby stars. As published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team from Kyushu University and Kagawa University reports that during the early growth period of a baby star, the protostellar disk\u2014the dense disk of gas and dust that surrounds the star\u2014expels magnetic flux and [&#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-3925258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925258","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=3925258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}