{"id":3927748,"date":"2026-09-01T04:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/declining-star-formation-not-caused-by-simple-fuel-crisis-new-measurements-suggest\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:02:07","slug":"declining-star-formation-not-caused-by-simple-fuel-crisis-new-measurements-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/declining-star-formation-not-caused-by-simple-fuel-crisis-new-measurements-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Declining star formation not caused by simple &#8216;fuel crisis,&#8217; new measurements suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar &#8220;babies.&#8221; Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate of star birth has crashed to less than half of what it once was. But here&#8217;s the twist: the most essential &#8220;fuel&#8221; for making stars has barely decreased.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-declining-star-formation-simple-fuel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar &#8220;babies.&#8221; Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate of star birth has crashed to less than half of what it once was. But here&#8217;s the twist: the most essential &#8220;fuel&#8221; for making stars has barely decreased. <\/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-3927748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927748","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=3927748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}