{"id":26664,"date":"2012-08-17T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/17\/glashaut-via-apod-2012-august-16-ngc-6888\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:17:41","slug":"glashaut-via-apod-2012-august-16-ngc-6888","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/17\/glashaut-via-apod-2012-august-16-ngc-6888\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-26664 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/17\/glashaut-via-apod-2012-august-16-ngc-6888\/attachment\/26665\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8wqopvsoc1qaq2awo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8wqopvsoc1qaq2awo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8wqopvsoc1qaq2awo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/glashaut.tumblr.com\/post\/29626483052\/via-apod-2012-august-16-ngc-6888-the-crescent\">glashaut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap120816.html\">APOD: 2012 August 16 &#8211; NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>Image Credit &amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/lib\/about_apod.html#srapply\">Copyright<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>J-P Mets\u00e4vainio (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.astroanarchy.blogspot.com\/\">Astro Anarchy<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:\u00a0<\/strong>NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star.<a href=\"http:\/\/astroanarchy.blogspot.fi\/2011\/01\/ngc-6888-crescent-nebula-reprocessed.html\">This colorful portrait<\/a>\u00a0of the nebula uses narrow band image data combined in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/gallery\/behind_the_pictures\/meaning_of_color\/eagle.php\">Hubble palatte<\/a>. It shows emission from sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms in the wind-blown nebula in red, green and blue hues. NGC 6888\u2019s central star is classified as a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cfa-www.harvard.edu\/~pberlind\/atlas\/htmls\/wrstars.html\">Wolf-Rayet star<\/a>\u00a0(WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peripatus.gen.nz\/Astronomy\/SteWin.html\">stellar wind<\/a>, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun\u2019s mass every 10,000 years. The nebula\u2019s complex structures are likely the result of this strong wind interacting with material ejected in an earlier phase. Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chandra.harvard.edu\/photo\/2003\/ngc6888\/\">near the end of its stellar life<\/a>\u00a0this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap060430.html\">supernova<\/a>\u00a0explosion. Found in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap080424.html\">nebula rich<\/a>\u00a0constellation Cygnus,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seds.org\/~spider\/ngc\/ngc.cgi?NGC6888\">NGC 6888<\/a>\u00a0is about 5,000 light-years away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>glashaut: (via APOD: 2012 August 16 &#8211; NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula) NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula\u00a0Image Credit &amp;\u00a0Copyright:\u00a0J-P Mets\u00e4vainio (Astro Anarchy) Explanation:\u00a0NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star.This colorful portrait\u00a0of the nebula uses narrow band image &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/17\/glashaut-via-apod-2012-august-16-ngc-6888\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26666,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26664\/revisions\/26666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}