{"id":918501,"date":"2026-10-06T19:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918501\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:02:16","slug":"astronomers-solve-cosmic-cold-case-with-nasa-hubble-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918501\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Solve Cosmic Cold Case with NASA Hubble Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diligent sleuthing by astronomers uncovered a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet.\u00a0This artist\u2019s concept released on Oct. 5, 2026, depicts that possible explanation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The white dwarf is the \u201cdead\u201d core of a star that burned through all of its nuclear fuel and lost its outer envelope of gas and dust to space. The second-generation planet formed from that cast-off gas and dust, which is why its chemical content is very different from a planet that formed as its host star was forming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/suspected-second-generation-planet-solves-nasa-hubble-cold-case\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about this scientific discovery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diligent sleuthing by astronomers uncovered a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-918501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918501","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=918501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}