{"id":3925482,"date":"2026-04-14T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/young-stars-dim-quickly-in-their-x-ray-output-potentially-benefiting-orbiting-planets\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:03:30","slug":"young-stars-dim-quickly-in-their-x-ray-output-potentially-benefiting-orbiting-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/young-stars-dim-quickly-in-their-x-ray-output-potentially-benefiting-orbiting-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Young stars dim quickly in their X-ray output, potentially benefiting orbiting planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a new study using NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Observatory. A paper describing the results is published in The Astrophysical Journal. Unlike in the new movie &#8220;Project Hail Mary,&#8221; this quieting of young stars is a benefit for the prospects for life on orbiting planets around these stars, not a threat.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-young-stars-dim-quickly-ray.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a new study using NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Observatory. A paper describing the results is published in The Astrophysical Journal. Unlike in the new movie &#8220;Project Hail Mary,&#8221; this quieting [&#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-3925482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925482","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=3925482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}