{"id":12053,"date":"2017-11-01T04:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2017-11-01T04:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T04:56:48","slug":"thors-helmet-emission-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12053","title":{"rendered":"Thors Helmet Emission Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1711\/ThorsHelmet_Block_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor&#8217;s Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor&#8217;s Helmet spans about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind &#8212; from the bright star near the center of the bubble&#8217;s blue-hued region &#8212; sweeps through a surrounding molecular cloud. This star, a Wolf-Rayet star, is a massive and extremely hot giant star thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. Cataloged as NGC 2359, the emission nebula is located about 12,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major). The sharp image, made using broadband and narrowband filters, captures striking details of the nebula&#8217;s filamentary gas and dust structures. The blue color originates from strong emission from oxygen atoms in the nebula. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2zS1WkA\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages is popularly called Thor&#8217;s Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor&#8217;s Helmet spans about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12053\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-12053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12054,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12053\/revisions\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}