{"id":3926637,"date":"2026-06-22T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-map-a-magnetic-skeleton-funneling-gas-into-a-stellar-nursery\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:02:50","slug":"astronomers-map-a-magnetic-skeleton-funneling-gas-into-a-stellar-nursery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-map-a-magnetic-skeleton-funneling-gas-into-a-stellar-nursery\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers map a magnetic &#8216;skeleton&#8217; funneling gas into a stellar nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Stars form when vast clouds of cold gas in space collapse under their own gravity. But not all gas collapses, and not all clouds form stars equally efficiently. A longstanding puzzle in astrophysics is what controls this process\u2014and a leading suspect has been the role of magnetic fields, which thread through interstellar gas like an invisible scaffolding.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-astronomers-magnetic-skeleton-funneling-gas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars form when vast clouds of cold gas in space collapse under their own gravity. But not all gas collapses, and not all clouds form stars equally efficiently. A longstanding puzzle in astrophysics is what controls this process\u2014and a leading suspect has been the role of magnetic fields, which thread through interstellar gas like an [&#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-3926637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}