{"id":3927659,"date":"2026-08-25T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/lunar-soil-reads-as-a-cosmic-time-capsule-for-exploding-stars\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:00:36","slug":"lunar-soil-reads-as-a-cosmic-time-capsule-for-exploding-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/lunar-soil-reads-as-a-cosmic-time-capsule-for-exploding-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar soil reads as a cosmic time capsule for exploding stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright, powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters material across the universe. A new study led by a University of Hawai&#8217;i at M\u0101noa researcher has discovered that the moon&#8217;s mixed-up soil can be read as a cosmic time capsule for exploding stars. The work is published in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-lunar-soil-cosmic-capsule-stars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright, powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters material across the universe. A new study led by a University of Hawai&#8217;i at M\u0101noa researcher has discovered that the moon&#8217;s mixed-up soil can be read as a cosmic time capsule for exploding stars. [&#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-3927659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927659","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=3927659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}