{"id":412008,"date":"2026-04-24T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=ce52bfec3da4c5ba12587d79ea936e6c"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:01:38","slug":"nasas-chandra-finds-young-stars-dim-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=412008","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Chandra Finds Young Stars Dim Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our Sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in their X-ray output than previously thought, according to a study using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory.<\/div>\n
X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/Penn State Univ\/K. Getman; Optical\/IR: PanSTARRS; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/N. Wolk<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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 NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> that shows how young Sun-like stars are dimmer in X-rays than previously thought.<\/p>\n

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

Learn more about what this finding means.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/Penn State Univ\/K. Getman; Optical\/IR: PanSTARRS; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/N. Wolk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory that shows how young Sun-like stars are dimmer in X-rays than previously thought. This latest study looked at eight clusters of stars between the ages of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15670,17358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chandra-x-ray-observatory","category-open-clusters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412035,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412008\/revisions\/412035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}