{"id":3928244,"date":"2026-10-02T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-stars-shine-infrared-observations-expose-gaps-in-models-of-how-stars-distribute-their-light\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:02:37","slug":"how-stars-shine-infrared-observations-expose-gaps-in-models-of-how-stars-distribute-their-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-stars-shine-infrared-observations-expose-gaps-in-models-of-how-stars-distribute-their-light\/","title":{"rendered":"How stars shine: Infrared observations expose gaps in models of how stars distribute their light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers using Georgia State University&#8217;s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have found that nearby stars darken toward their edges more strongly at near-infrared wavelengths than predicted by several widely used models of stellar atmospheres, providing a new benchmark for understanding how stars are structured.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-stars-infrared-expose-gaps.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using Georgia State University&#8217;s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have found that nearby stars darken toward their edges more strongly at near-infrared wavelengths than predicted by several widely used models of stellar atmospheres, providing a new benchmark for understanding how stars are structured. <\/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-3928244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928244","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=3928244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}