{"id":842438,"date":"2026-08-03T20:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842438\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:44:13","slug":"neptune-data-hints-at-ancient-disaster-for-its-moons-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842438\/","title":{"rendered":"Neptune data hints at ancient disaster for its moons | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">&#8220;The moons themselves are far too small and cold for that chemistry to have occurred in place, so the clay had to come from somewhere else &#8211; the deep interior of a much larger ancient world. Finding this material on Neptune&#8217;s inner moons points to a catastrophic event in \u200cNeptune&#8217;s past that destroyed \u200cthose ancient worlds and exposed their \u2060deep interiors, with the small moons and rings we see today re-forming from that wreckage,&#8221; Davis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The moons themselves are far too small and cold for that chemistry to have occurred in place, so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,128],"class_list":["post-842438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842438","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=842438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}