{"id":26233,"date":"2024-10-24T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26233"},"modified":"2024-10-24T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T05:56:11","slug":"ngc-7293-the-helix-nebula-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26233","title":{"rendered":"NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2410\/NGC7293_preview1024.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>A mere seven hundred light years from Earth toward the constellation Aquarius, a star is dying. The once sun-like star&#8217;s last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula. Also known as NGC 7293, the cosmic Helix is a well studied and nearby example of a Planetary Nebula, typical of this final phase of stellar evolution. Combining narrow band data from emission lines of hydrogen atoms in red and oxygen atoms in blue-green hues, this deep image 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, dying 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\/ap241024.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mere seven hundred light years from Earth toward the constellation Aquarius, a star is dying. The once sun-like star&#8217;s last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula. Also <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26233\" 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-26233","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\/26233","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=26233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26234,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26233\/revisions\/26234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}