{"id":664583,"date":"2020-08-21T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=664583"},"modified":"2020-08-21T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T09:18:00","slug":"cosmic-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=664583","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cosmic_fireworks_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>\u00a0features\u00a0the spectacular galaxy NGC 2442.<\/p>\n<p>This galaxy was host to a\u00a0supernova explosion,\u00a0known as SN2015F, that was created by a\u00a0white dwarf\u00a0star. The white dwarf was part of a binary star system and syphoned mass from its companion, eventually becoming too greedy and taking on more than it could handle. This unbalanced the star and triggered runaway\u00a0nuclear fusion\u00a0that eventually led to an intensely violent\u00a0supernova explosion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SN2015F was spotted in March 2015 in the galaxy named NGC 2442, nicknamed\u00a0the Meathook Galaxy\u00a0owing to its extremely asymmetrical and irregular shape. The supernova shone brightly for quite some time and was easily visible from Earth through even a small telescope until later that summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/08\/Cosmic_fireworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cosmic fireworks<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image from the\u00a0NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0features\u00a0the spectacular galaxy NGC 2442. This galaxy was host to a\u00a0supernova explosion,\u00a0known as SN2015F, that was created by a\u00a0white dwarf\u00a0star. The white dwarf was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664584,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664583","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\/664583","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=664583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/664584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}