{"id":3925573,"date":"2026-04-19T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/these-blazing-blue-explosions-may-be-born-when-a-compact-dead-star-slams-into-a-wolf-rayet-star\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:04:28","slug":"these-blazing-blue-explosions-may-be-born-when-a-compact-dead-star-slams-into-a-wolf-rayet-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/these-blazing-blue-explosions-may-be-born-when-a-compact-dead-star-slams-into-a-wolf-rayet-star\/","title":{"rendered":"These blazing blue explosions may be born when a compact dead star slams into a Wolf-Rayet star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe&#8217;s brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is not completely understood. A new study takes a closer look at the galaxies they occur in, offering two important clues about their nature. A paper outlining these results was uploaded to the preprint server arXiv on March 24.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-blazing-blue-explosions-born-compact.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe&#8217;s brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is not completely understood. A new study takes a closer look at the galaxies they occur in, offering two important clues about their nature. A paper outlining these results was uploaded to the preprint server arXiv on March [&#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-3925573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925573","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=3925573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}