{"id":232651,"date":"2015-08-21T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"2b8acc86deb24edc89cee4670bd7dd94"},"modified":"2015-08-21T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:32:00","slug":"a-cosmic-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=232651","title":{"rendered":"A cosmic couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/08\/a_cosmic_couple\/15562298-1-eng-GB\/A_cosmic_couple_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nHere we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 \u2014 more commonly known as WR 124 \u2014 and the nebula M1-67 which surrounds it. Both objects, captured here by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are found in the constellation of Sagittarius and lie 15 000 light-years away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe star Hen 2-427 shines brightly at the very centre of this explosive image and around the hot clumps of gas are ejected into space at over 150 000 kilometres per hour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHen 2-427 is a Wolf\u2013Rayet star, named after the astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet. Wolf\u2013Rayet are super-hot stars characterised by a fierce ejection of mass.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe nebula M1-67 is estimated to be no more than 10 000 years old \u2014 just a baby in astronomical terms \u2014 but what a beautiful and magnificent sight it makes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA version of this image was released in 1998, but has now been re-reduced with the latest software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/08\/a_cosmic_couple\/15562298-1-eng-GB\/A_cosmic_couple_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nHere we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 \u2014 more commonly known as WR 124 \u2014 and the nebula M1-67 which surrounds it. Both objects, captured here by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are found in the constellation of Sagittarius and lie 15 000 light-years away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe star Hen 2-427 shines brightly at the very centre of this explosive image and around the hot clumps of gas are ejected into space at over 150 000 kilometres per hour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHen 2-427 is a Wolf\u2013Rayet star, named after the astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet. Wolf\u2013Rayet are super-hot stars characterised by a fierce ejection of mass.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe nebula M1-67 is estimated to be no more than 10 000 years old \u2014 just a baby in astronomical terms \u2014 but what a beautiful and magnificent sight it makes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA version of this image was released in 1998, but has now been re-reduced with the latest software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}