{"id":3927256,"date":"2026-07-30T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ancient-stardust-grains-were-seeds-for-the-earliest-solids-in-the-solar-system\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:02:38","slug":"ancient-stardust-grains-were-seeds-for-the-earliest-solids-in-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ancient-stardust-grains-were-seeds-for-the-earliest-solids-in-the-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient stardust grains were seeds for the earliest solids in the solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>How did the first solids that made up planets, moons and asteroids form from the &#8220;hot soup&#8221; that characterized our solar system&#8217;s earliest years? New research from Caltech analyzing pieces of a meteorite has found that, just as snowflakes crystallize around grains of dust, ancient stardust grains left over from long-gone suns may have been the seeds of our solar system&#8217;s earliest solids.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-ancient-stardust-grains-seeds-earliest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the first solids that made up planets, moons and asteroids form from the &#8220;hot soup&#8221; that characterized our solar system&#8217;s earliest years? New research from Caltech analyzing pieces of a meteorite has found that, just as snowflakes crystallize around grains of dust, ancient stardust grains left over from long-gone suns may have been [&#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-3927256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927256","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=3927256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}