{"id":2159,"date":"2016-12-02T05:39:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2016-12-02T05:39:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:39:43","slug":"flaming-star-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Star Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1612\/ic405s_2block1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>A runaway star lights the Flaming Star Nebula in this cosmic scene. Otherwise known as IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula&#8217;s billowing interstellar clouds of gas and dust lie about 1,500 light-years away toward the constellation of Auriga. AE Aurigae, the bright star at upper left in the frame, is a massive and intensely hot O-type star moving rapidly through space, likely ejected from a collision of multiple star-systems in the vicinity of the Orion Nebula millions of years ago. Now close to IC 405, the high-speed star&#8217;s ionizing ultraviolet radiation powers the visible reddish glow as the nebula&#8217;s hydrogen atoms are stripped of their electrons and recombine. Its intense blue starlight is reflected by the nebula&#8217;s dusty filaments. Like all massive stars AE Aurigae will be short-lived though, furiously burning through its supply of fuel for nuclear fusion and exploding as a supernova. The colorful telescopic snapshot spans about 5 light-years at the estimated distance of the Flaming Star Nebula. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2gP8k2y\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A runaway star lights the Flaming Star Nebula in this cosmic scene. Otherwise known as IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula&#8217;s billowing interstellar clouds of gas and dust lie about <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2159\" 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-2159","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\/2159","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=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}