{"id":313,"date":"2011-10-05T11:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2011-10-05T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:44:51","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_312\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/eso0644a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312\" title=\"Asymmetric Ashes\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/eso0644a-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Asymmetric Ashes\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/eso0644a-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/eso0644a-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/eso0644a.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asymmetric Ashes. Image courtesy: ESO<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s wallpaper shows an artist&#8217;s depiction of what the early stages of a Type Ia supernova might look like. \u00a0The image of the &#8220;exploding&#8221; star shows at its edges the asymmetrical shape of the resultant blast cloud. Using data gathered while making spectro-polarimetry observations with\u00a0ESO&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/vlt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Very Large Telescope<\/a> and the McDonald Observatory&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mcdonaldobservatory.org\/research\/telescopes\/telescope.php?t_id=17\" target=\"_blank\">Otto Struve Telescope<\/a>, astronomers have concluded that the varied composition of a white dwarf star would lead to an unevenly-shaped debris cloud, rather than a perfect blast sphere, during the supernova event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s wallpaper shows an artist&#8217;s depiction of what the early stages of a Type Ia supernova might look like. \u00a0The image of the &#8220;exploding&#8221; star shows at its edges the asymmetrical shape of the resultant blast cloud. Using data gathered while making spectro-polarimetry observations with\u00a0ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope and the McDonald Observatory&#8217;s Otto Struve Telescope, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}