{"id":3928563,"date":"2026-10-23T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/alma-spots-dragon-egg-that-may-represent-the-earliest-stages-of-massive-star-formation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:00:15","slug":"alma-spots-dragon-egg-that-may-represent-the-earliest-stages-of-massive-star-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/alma-spots-dragon-egg-that-may-represent-the-earliest-stages-of-massive-star-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"ALMA spots &#8216;dragon egg&#8217; that may represent the earliest stages of massive star formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers identified an exceptionally tiny core that may represent an early stage in the formation of a massive star. Located in an infrared-dark area called Dragon Cloud, the core is nicknamed the &#8220;dragon egg.&#8221; The paper, accepted for publication in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Oct. 5.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-alma-dragon-egg-earliest-stages.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers identified an exceptionally tiny core that may represent an early stage in the formation of a massive star. Located in an infrared-dark area called Dragon Cloud, the core is nicknamed the &#8220;dragon egg.&#8221; The paper, accepted for publication in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Oct. 5. <\/p>\n<p>Go to [&#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-3928563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928563","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=3928563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}