{"id":25263,"date":"2022-12-07T05:56:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25263"},"modified":"2022-12-07T05:56:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:56:53","slug":"ngc-7293-the-helix-nebula-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25263","title":{"rendered":"NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2212\/NGC7293-TommasoStella2022WEB1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, toward the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. The dying star&#8217;s last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a well studied and nearby example of a Planetary Nebula, typical of this final phase of stellar evolution. Combining narrow band image data from emission lines of hydrogen atoms in red and oxygen atoms in blue-green hues, it shows tantalizing details of the Helix, including its bright inner region about 3 light-years across. The white dot at the Helix&#8217;s center is this Planetary Nebula&#8217;s hot, central star. A simple looking nebula at first glance, the Helix is now understood to have a surprisingly complex geometry. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap221207.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, toward the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. The dying star&#8217;s last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula (NGC <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25263\" 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-25263","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\/25263","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=25263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25264,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25263\/revisions\/25264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}