{"id":289717,"date":"2016-10-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/news\/2016\/10\/telescope-looks-past-dust-and-finds-new-stars"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T10:00:00","slug":"telescope-looks-past-dust-and-finds-new-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=289717","title":{"rendered":"Telescope looks past dust and finds new stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have seen newborn red stars dimly shining from the cocoons of dust and gas out of which they formed.<br \/>\nAstronomers made this discovery using the European Southern Observatory&rsquo;s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), which studies the near-infrared part of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, dust does not block near-infrared radiation as it does visible light, so the telescope can image small, cool stars. VISTA, which uses a mirror 4.1 meters in diameter, is part of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have seen newborn red stars dimly shining from the cocoons of dust and gas out of which they formed.<br \/>\nAstronomers made this discovery using the European Southern Observatory&rsquo;s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-kosmos","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}