{"id":203,"date":"2011-07-13T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T20:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2011-07-13T21:52:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T01:52:29","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_204\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1981.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-204 \" title=\"Aflame\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/561982main_flamingstar_full_946-710-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Aflame\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/561982main_flamingstar_full_946-710-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/561982main_flamingstar_full_946-710-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aflame. Image credit: NASA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sandra Olson, an aerospace engineer at NASA&#8217;s Glenn Research Center, uses her art to demonstrate the effects of gravity on fire. In the image above, she&#8217;s created multiple layers of three images of flames produced in microgravity environments. \u00a0The different colors are caused by different chemical reactions: the blue is produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemiluminescence\" target=\"_blank\">chemiluminescence<\/a>, while the yellow, orange and white are caused by &#8216;glowing soot.&#8217; Olson&#8217;s photo won first place at the 2011 Combustion Art Competition, held at the 7th U.S. National Combustion Meeting.\u00a0However, this image is more than pretty&#8212;the real purpose of microgravity combustion research is to ensure fire safety during spaceflight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Olson, an aerospace engineer at NASA&#8217;s Glenn Research Center, uses her art to demonstrate the effects of gravity on fire. In the image above, she&#8217;s created multiple layers of three images of flames produced in microgravity environments. \u00a0The different colors are caused by different chemical reactions: the blue is produced by chemiluminescence, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}