{"id":34293,"date":"2017-02-08T04:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/hubble-image-captures-the-death-of-a-star"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:53:23","slug":"hubble-image-captures-the-death-of-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/hubble-image-captures-the-death-of-a-star","title":{"rendered":"Hubble image captures the death of a star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-image-captures-the-death-of-a-star.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feb. 3 (UPI) \u2014 A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope displays the beauty of a stellar death \u2014 in this case, the death of a low-mass star, similar to our sun in size.<\/p>\n<p>Once a red giant, the star is currently in a transitionary phase: It\u2019s on its way to becoming a planetary nebula. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-feature\/goddard\/2017\/hubble-captures-brilliant-star-death-in-rotten-egg-nebula\" target=\"_blank\">The Hubble image reveals<\/a> the star\u2019s layers of gas and dust being shed and thrown outward. The expelled material, now forming clouds, could eventually form new stars and planets.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers rarely catch dying red giants in their transitionary phase. It will only be a few thousand years before the star is a pure planetary nebula \u2014 a blip in space time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/6490256\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/6490256<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3 (UPI) \u2014 A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope displays the beauty of a stellar death \u2014 in this case, the death of a low-mass star, similar to our sun in size. Once a red giant, the star is currently in a transitionary phase: It\u2019s on its way to becoming a planetary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49000,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34293\/revisions\/49000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}