{"id":85885,"date":"2018-12-16T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/this-breathtaking-image-is-a-real-photo-of-two-stars-destroying-each-other"},"modified":"2018-12-16T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:22:34","slug":"this-breathtaking-image-is-a-real-photo-of-two-stars-destroying-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/this-breathtaking-image-is-a-real-photo-of-two-stars-destroying-each-other","title":{"rendered":"This Breathtaking Image Is a Real Photo of Two Stars Destroying Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-breathtaking-image-is-a-real-photo-of-two-stars-destroying-each-other.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The death of a binary star can be a spectacularly violent thing.<\/p>\n<p>This picture shows the binary system R Aquarii, a red giant throwing off its outer envelope, which is being greedily cannibalised by its companion, a much smaller, denser white dwarf.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic moment you\u2019re looking at unfolded just 650 light-years from Earth \u2013 practically right next door in astronomical terms, which is why astronomers have a keen interest in the event.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/look-at-this-incredible-picture-of-two-stars-locked-in-a-dance-of-death\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/look-at-this-incredible-picture...e-of-death<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of a binary star can be a spectacularly violent thing. This picture shows the binary system R Aquarii, a red giant throwing off its outer envelope, which is being greedily cannibalised by its companion, a much smaller, denser white dwarf. The dramatic moment you\u2019re looking at unfolded just 650 light-years from Earth \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85885","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=85885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}