{"id":736260,"date":"2026-02-02T00:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/736260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:37:14","slug":"a-cosmic-treasure-in-france-this-meteorite-contains-grains-older-than-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/736260\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cosmic Treasure in France: This Meteorite Contains Grains Older Than the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tA Cosmic Treasure in France: This Meteorite Contains Grains Older Than the Sun &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>February 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            8 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/meteorite-grains-pre-solaires.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"meteorite-grains-pre-solar\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    The Calabash Nebula, whose technical name is OH 231.8+04.2, is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the Sun. The nebula is also known as the Rotten Egg Nebula because it contains a lot of sulfur, an element that, when combined with other elements, smells like rotten eggs. Fortunately, it is located more than 5,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Puppis. \u00a9 Angel_nt, iStock<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cosmic Treasure in France: This Meteorite Contains Grains Older Than the Sun &#8211; Futura-Sciences February 1, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,12883,218383,218384],"class_list":["post-736260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-meteorites","tag-presolar-grains","tag-solar-system-origins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115998244587732622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}