{"id":3927386,"date":"2026-08-07T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/an-ultramassive-white-dwarf-half-earths-size-may-hold-a-rare-oxygen-neon-core\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:03:09","slug":"an-ultramassive-white-dwarf-half-earths-size-may-hold-a-rare-oxygen-neon-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/an-ultramassive-white-dwarf-half-earths-size-may-hold-a-rare-oxygen-neon-core\/","title":{"rendered":"An ultramassive white dwarf half Earth&#8217;s size may hold a rare oxygen-neon core"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers have found evidence that one of the most massive white dwarfs known has an oxygen-neon core instead of the more common carbon-oxygen core. The finding is important because the composition of a white dwarf&#8217;s core determines how it will evolve. A paper outlining this discovery was published in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-ultramassive-white-dwarf-earth-size.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found evidence that one of the most massive white dwarfs known has an oxygen-neon core instead of the more common carbon-oxygen core. The finding is important because the composition of a white dwarf&#8217;s core determines how it will evolve. A paper outlining this discovery was published in The Astrophysical Journal. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#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-3927386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927386","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=3927386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}