{"id":4297,"date":"2018-11-20T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/20\/see-the-newly-found-explosive-star-system-named-for-an-egyptian-snake-god-atlas-obscura\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T13:33:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:33:34","slug":"see-the-newly-found-explosive-star-system-named-for-an-egyptian-snake-god-atlas-obscura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/20\/see-the-newly-found-explosive-star-system-named-for-an-egyptian-snake-god-atlas-obscura\/","title":{"rendered":"See the Newly Found, Explosive Star System Named for an Egyptian Snake God | Atlas Obscura"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The extremely hot, extremely massive, extremely bright stars\u2014known as Wolf-Rayets\u2014that compose the system are rotating far more rapidly than they\u2019ve been known to do in our galaxy, where various conditions tend to slow them down. Stranger still is that the dust, which is expanding outward at the relative snail\u2019s pace of around a million miles per hour, seems to be immune to the solar wind being generated by the stars. \u201cIt was like finding a feather caught in a hurricane just drifting along at a walking pace,\u201d said coauthor Peter Tuthill, of the University of Sydney, in a <\/span><\/span>release<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The extremely hot, extremely massive, extremely bright stars\u2014known as Wolf-Rayets\u2014that compose the system are rotating far more rapidly than they\u2019ve been known to do in our galaxy, where various conditions tend to slow them down. Stranger still is that the dust, which is expanding outward at the relative snail\u2019s pace of around a million miles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-17j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}