{"id":15285,"date":"2018-02-28T05:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T05:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=15285"},"modified":"2018-02-28T05:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T05:56:23","slug":"ngc-613-in-dust-stars-and-a-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=15285","title":{"rendered":"NGC 613 in Dust, Stars, and a Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1802\/NGC613_HubbleBuso_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Where did that spot come from? Amateur astronomer Victor Buso was testing out a new camera on his telescope in 2016 when he noticed a curious spot of light appear &#8212; and remain. After reporting this unusual observation, this spot was determined to be light from a supernova just as it was becoming visible &#8212; in an earlier stage than had ever been photographed optically before. The discovery before and after images, taken about an hour apart, are shown in the inset of a more detailed image of the same spiral galaxy, NGC 613, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Follow-up observations show that SN 2016gkg was likely the explosion of a supergiant star, and Buso likely captured the stage where the outgoing detonation wave from the stellar core broke through the star&#8217;s surface. Since astronomers have spent years monitoring galaxies for supernovas without seeing such a &#8220;break out&#8221; event, the odds of Buso capturing this have been compared to winning a lottery. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap180228.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did that spot come from? Amateur astronomer Victor Buso was testing out a new camera on his telescope in 2016 when he noticed a curious spot of light appear <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=15285\" 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-15285","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\/15285","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=15285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15286,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions\/15286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}