{"id":9161,"date":"2026-01-12T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:44:03","slug":"construction-begins-on-the-first-and-largest-gamma-ray-observatory-in-chile-eso-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/construction-begins-on-the-first-and-largest-gamma-ray-observatory-in-chile-eso-press-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers surprised by mysterious shock wave around dead star &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star\u2019s surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have imaged a beautiful shock wave around a dead star \u2014 a discovery that has left them puzzled. According to all known mechanisms, the small, dead star RXJ0528+2838 should not have such structure around it. This discovery, as enigmatic as it\u2019s stunning, challenges our understanding of how dead stars interact with their surroundings &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2601\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eso2601-ENG.jpg\" alt=\"VLT image of a dead star creating a shock wave as it moves through space - Credit: ESO\/K. I\u0142kiewicz and S. Scaringi et al. Background: PanSTARRS. \" class=\"wp-image-9166\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">VLT image of a dead star creating a shock wave as it moves through space &#8211; Credit: ESO\/K. I\u0142kiewicz and S. Scaringi et al. Background: PanSTARRS. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star\u2019s surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have imaged a beautiful shock wave around a dead star \u2014 a discovery that has left them puzzled. According to all known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[390,365],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-eso-2","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eso2601-ENG.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eso2601-ENG.jpg",150,84,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eso2601-ENG.jpg",300,169,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eso2601-ENG.jpg",768,432,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eso2601-ENG.jpg",1024,576,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eso2601-ENG.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eso2601-ENG.jpg",1280,720,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star\u2019s surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have imaged a beautiful shock wave around a dead star \u2014 a discovery that has left them puzzled. According to all known mechanisms, the small, dead star RXJ0528+2838 should not have such structure around it. This discovery, as enigmatic as it\u2019s stunning, challenges our understanding of how dead stars interact with their surroundings &#8211; Read the full story on: VLT image of a dead star creating a&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}