{"id":6559,"date":"2012-07-12T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T02:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T03:24:46","slug":"star-ejects-bubble-of-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/space\/star-ejects-bubble-of-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Star ejects bubble of gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6560\" title=\"NASA\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/NASA-e1342061501458.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bubble of gas surrounds U Cam. Image: ESA\/NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Near the North Celestial Pole, in the constellation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camelopardalis\">Camelopardalis<\/a> (The Giraffe), a star shines. The celestial body is a prime example of a carbon star (it contains more carbon than oxygen), but it is so small, that researchers at NASA suggests that it could fit within a pixel.\u00a0That tiny star is known as U Cam, and it is nearing the end of its life.<\/p>\n<p>As a layer of helium fuses around its core, the celestial body spits a spherical shell of gas [in the image]. The eruption happens every few thousands years, and the Hubble Space Telescope captured that shinning moment recently. NASA researchers suggests that U Cam will die in a few hundred years, so this moment could be considered its last breath.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the North Celestial Pole, in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), a star shines. The celestial body is a prime example of a carbon star (it contains more carbon than oxygen), but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,101,27],"tags":[478,155,477],"class_list":["post-6559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-images","category-bulls-eye","category-space","tag-hubble","tag-space-2","tag-star"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}