{"id":652323,"date":"2020-04-17T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=652323"},"modified":"2020-04-17T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T08:10:00","slug":"hunting-for-dead-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=652323","title":{"rendered":"Hunting for dead stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hunting_for_dead_stars_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image depicts a swirling\u00a0spiral galaxy\u00a0named NGC 2906.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The blue speckles seen scattered across this galaxy are massive\u00a0 young stars, which emit hot, blue-tinged radiation as they burn through their fuel at an immense rate. The swathes of orange are a mix of older stars that have swollen and cooled, and low-mass stars that were never especially hot to begin with. Owing to their lower temperatures, these stars emit a cooler, reddish, radiation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This image of NGC 2906 was captured by the\u00a0NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s\u00a0Wide Field Camera 3, an instrument installed on Hubble in 2009 during the telescope\u2019s fourth servicing mission. Hubble observed this galaxy on the hunt for fading light from recent, nearby occurrences of objects known as\u00a0supernovae.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/04\/Hunting_for_dead_stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hunting for dead stars<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image depicts a swirling\u00a0spiral galaxy\u00a0named NGC 2906.\u00a0 The blue speckles seen scattered across this galaxy are massive\u00a0 young stars, which emit hot, blue-tinged radiation as they burn through their&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652324,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652323","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\/652323","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/652324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}