{"id":164,"date":"2014-10-26T03:58:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T09:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2014-10-26T03:59:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T09:59:04","slug":"164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Dust, noise, and streaks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a large planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius about 700 light-years away and spans about 2.5 light-years. Gases from the star in the surrounding space appear, from our vantage point, as if we are looking down a helix structure. The remnant central stellar core, known as a planetary nebula nucleus or PNN, is destined to become a white dwarf star. The observed glow of the central star is so energetic that it causes the previously expelled gases to brightly fluoresce.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/helix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/helix-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Helix Nebula (NGC 7293)\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/helix-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/helix.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Helix Nebula (NGC 7293)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a large planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius about 700 light-years away and spans about 2.5 light-years. Gases from the star in the surrounding space appear, from our vantage point, as if we are looking down a helix structure. The remnant central stellar core, known as a planetary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dust, noise, and streaks.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4P0Vj-164","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}