{"id":3927269,"date":"2026-07-30T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/probing-binary-stars-in-the-small-magellanic-cloud-with-the-jwst\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:05:26","slug":"probing-binary-stars-in-the-small-magellanic-cloud-with-the-jwst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/probing-binary-stars-in-the-small-magellanic-cloud-with-the-jwst\/","title":{"rendered":"Probing binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud with the JWST"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The formation and evolution of individual stars in a galaxy shape the evolution of the galaxy itself. Stars and stellar remnants make up the vast majority of a galaxy&#8217;s mass, so it&#8217;s not surprising that the stellar population affects the evolution of galaxies. In the Milky Way&#8217;s disk and bulge, stars and dead stars make up about 85% of the baryonic mass.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-probing-binary-stars-small-magellanic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formation and evolution of individual stars in a galaxy shape the evolution of the galaxy itself. Stars and stellar remnants make up the vast majority of a galaxy&#8217;s mass, so it&#8217;s not surprising that the stellar population affects the evolution of galaxies. In the Milky Way&#8217;s disk and bulge, stars and dead stars make [&#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-3927269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927269","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=3927269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}