{"id":3927346,"date":"2026-08-05T14:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-catch-hatchling-quasar-breaking-out-of-its-dusty-cocoon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:03:47","slug":"astronomers-catch-hatchling-quasar-breaking-out-of-its-dusty-cocoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-catch-hatchling-quasar-breaking-out-of-its-dusty-cocoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers catch &#8216;Hatchling&#8217; quasar breaking out of its dusty cocoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Using observations from multiple powerful telescopes, a team of astronomers studied a red quasar nicknamed &#8220;the Hatchling&#8221; at redshift 3.7. They may have identified one of the clearest examples yet of a quasar caught in transition between a heavily obscured and fully exposed phase.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-astronomers-hatchling-quasar-dusty-cocoon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using observations from multiple powerful telescopes, a team of astronomers studied a red quasar nicknamed &#8220;the Hatchling&#8221; at redshift 3.7. They may have identified one of the clearest examples yet of a quasar caught in transition between a heavily obscured and fully exposed phase. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/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-3927346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927346","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=3927346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}