{"id":3927437,"date":"2026-08-11T13:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/twisted-magnetic-field-around-newborn-star-confirms-decades-old-jet-theory\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:04:06","slug":"twisted-magnetic-field-around-newborn-star-confirms-decades-old-jet-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/twisted-magnetic-field-around-newborn-star-confirms-decades-old-jet-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted magnetic field around newborn star confirms decades-old jet theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) is a partner, have captured the first direct, high-resolution images of a magnetic field wrapped tightly around the outflow of gas streaming away from a forming star\u2014evidence that solves a decades-old puzzle about how young stars sculpt the powerful jets that form them.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-magnetic-field-newborn-star-decades.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) is a partner, have captured the first direct, high-resolution images of a magnetic field wrapped tightly around the outflow of gas streaming away from a forming star\u2014evidence that solves a decades-old puzzle about how [&#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-3927437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927437","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=3927437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}