{"id":24363,"date":"2021-07-20T04:48:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24363"},"modified":"2021-07-20T04:48:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:48:46","slug":"thors-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24363","title":{"rendered":"Thors Helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2107\/ThorsHelmet_Miller_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens.\u00c2\u00a0 Popularly called Thor&#8217;s Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor&#8217;s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown with a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble&#8217;s center. 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 toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. This remarkably sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from broadband and narrowband filters, capturing not only natural looking stars but details of the nebula&#8217;s filamentary structures. The star in the center of Thor&#8217;s Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap210720.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens.\u00c2\u00a0 Popularly called Thor&#8217;s Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24363\" 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-24363","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\/24363","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=24363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24364,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24363\/revisions\/24364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}