{"id":81383,"date":"2018-08-04T18:42:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/astronomers-finally-understand-170-year-old-stellar-eruption"},"modified":"2018-08-04T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T01:42:36","slug":"astronomers-finally-understand-170-year-old-stellar-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/astronomers-finally-understand-170-year-old-stellar-eruption","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Finally Understand 170-Year-Old Stellar Eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pP7D1jk-FyU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Data collected from the Gemini South telescope in Chile has shed light on a nearly-200-year-old stellar eruption.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini spectroscopy shows that ejected material from the blast was the fastest ever seen from a star that remained intact.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine traveling from Earth to the Moon in 20 seconds. <i> That <\/i>is how quickly material from the 170-year-old explosion scurried away from unstable star Eta Carinae, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemini.edu\/node\/21086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the Gemini Observatory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/astronomers-finally-understand-170-year-old-stellar-eruption-1748128\/?source=science\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/astronomers-finally-understand-170...ce=science<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data collected from the Gemini South telescope in Chile has shed light on a nearly-200-year-old stellar eruption. Gemini spectroscopy shows that ejected material from the blast was the fastest ever seen from a star that remained intact. Imagine traveling from Earth to the Moon in 20 seconds. That is how quickly material from the 170-year-old [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81383","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}