{"id":626406,"date":"2026-04-23T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:11:10","slug":"nasas-chandra-finds-young-stars-dim-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626406\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Chandra Finds Young Stars Dim Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These images, released on April 14, 2026, show two open star clusters, Trumpler 3 (left) and NGC 2353 (right). They represent a recent study from <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/chandra\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> that shows how young Sun-like stars are dimmer in X-rays than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>This latest study looked at eight clusters of stars between the ages of 45 million and 750 million years old. The researchers found that Sun-like stars in these clusters unleashed only about a quarter to a third of the X-rays they expected. This quieting of young stars is a benefit for the prospects for life on orbiting planets around these stars \u2014 not a threat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/chandra\/nasa-finds-young-stars-dim-in-x-rays-surprisingly-quickly\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about what this finding means.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/Penn State Univ\/K. Getman; Optical\/IR: PanSTARRS; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/N. Wolk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These images, released on April 14, 2026, show two open star clusters, Trumpler 3 (left) and NGC 2353&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,62810,303471,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-626406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chandra-x-ray-observatory","11":"tag-open-clusters","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}