{"id":268,"date":"2016-08-07T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2016-08-07T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:18:12","slug":"ngc-7380-the-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"NGC 7380 &#8211; The Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">NGC 7380 (Sh2-142), more commonly called <strong>The Wizard Nebula<\/strong> due to it vaguely resembling\u00a0Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore and his ilk, was first discovered\u00a0by Caroline Herschel, sister of German-born British astronomer\u00a0Sir William Herschel,\u00a0in 1787. William included it in his famous catalog as\u00a0H VIII.77. The Wizard is about 7,200\u00a0light years from Earth within our own Milky Way Galaxy, is one of the larger nebulae in Cepheus, and is moving toward us at 34.13 kilometers per second. The gas and dust within the cluster span about 110 light years across. This kind of nebulae are the birthplace of stars. They are formed when very diffuse molecular clouds begin to collapse under their own gravity, often due to the influence of a nearby supernova explosion. The cloud collapses and fragments, sometimes forming hundreds of new stars. The newly-formed stars ionize the surrounding gas to produce an emission nebula.\u00a0In this case, the stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from its natal cloud some 5 million years or so ago, making it a relatively young cluster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">ps.\u00a0William Herschel discovered infrared light in 1800. He was a stud.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NGC7380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NGC7380-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"NGC 7380\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NGC7380-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NGC7380-872x1024.jpg 872w, https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NGC7380.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">NGC 7380 &#8211; The Wizard Nebula<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGC 7380 (Sh2-142), more commonly called The Wizard Nebula due to it vaguely resembling\u00a0Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore and his ilk, was first discovered\u00a0by Caroline Herschel, sister of German-born British astronomer\u00a0Sir William Herschel,\u00a0in 1787. William included it in his famous catalog as\u00a0H VIII.77. The Wizard is about 7,200\u00a0light years from Earth within our own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NGC 7380 &#8211; The Wizard<\/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-268","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\/p4P0Vj-4k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}