{"id":22562,"date":"2019-02-16T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T05:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22562"},"modified":"2019-02-16T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T05:57:07","slug":"ngc-2359-thor-s-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22562","title":{"rendered":"NGC 2359: Thor s Helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1902\/thor_LHORHGOBO_final1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor&#8217;s Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor&#8217;s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble&#8217;s center inflates a region within the surrounding molecular cloud. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The remarkably detailed image is a mixed cocktail of data from broadband and narrowband filters that captures natural looking stars and the glow of the nebula&#8217;s filamentary structures. It highlights a blue-green color from strong emission due to oxygen atoms in the glowing gas. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap190216.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor&#8217;s Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor&#8217;s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22562\" 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-22562","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\/22562","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=22562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22563,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22562\/revisions\/22563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}