{"id":60,"date":"2013-07-15T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-11-16T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T18:59:09","slug":"ngc-6751","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"NGC 6751"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A just finished digital painting of NGC 6751, a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquila. The nebula, also known as the Glowing Eye Nebula, is approximately 6,500 light-years away and 0.8 light-years in diameter. It is expanding at a rate of about 40 kilometers per second. The central star appears to be in its heating phase following the ejection of its giant-star envelope. Still losing mass, the star is on its way to becoming a white dwarf- the eventual fate of our own Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The painting is based on a Hubble Space Telescope image taken in 1998.\u00a0 There are two images- the full painting and a detail of the central portion, better showing the brush work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMX.jpg\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMX-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"NGC6751GMX\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMX-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMX-856x1024.jpg 856w, https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMX.jpg 1467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMXdetail.jpg\"> \u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMXdetail-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"NGC6751GMXdetail\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMXdetail-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NGC6751GMXdetail.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A just finished digital painting of NGC 6751, a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquila. The nebula, also known as the Glowing Eye Nebula, is approximately 6,500 light-years away and 0.8 light-years in diameter. It is expanding at a rate of about 40 kilometers per second. The central star appears to be in its heating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.websterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}