{"id":460,"date":"2003-04-01T02:09:13","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T02:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:04","slug":"mysterious-light-show-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"mysterious light show in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In January 2002, a star named V838 Monocerotis  suddenly became 600,000 times brighter than the sun, briefly becoming  the brightest star in the Milky Way. NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope has  captured the explosion in all its glory, showing the reverberation of  light  &#8212; the &#8220;light echo&#8221; &#8212; spreading into space and reflecting off  layers of dust surrounding the star itself. (See the images at  http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/news\/2003\/10.) V838 Mon&#8217;s outburst is  extraordinary. Unlike a nova, an exploding star that ejects its outer  layers and heats up to hundreds of thousands of degrees Fahrenheit, V838  Mon has ballooned enormously in size, and cooled to light-bulb  temperature levels. Howard E. Bond of the Space Telescope Science  Institute in Baltimore and his colleagues describe the star&#8217;s mysterious  eruption in the March 27 <em>Nature.<\/em> Their assessment says it all: &#8220;V383  Mon represents a hitherto unknown type of stellar outburst, for which we  have no completely satisfactory physical explanation.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 4\/01\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2002, a star named V838 Monocerotis suddenly became 600,000 times brighter than the sun, briefly becoming the brightest star in the Milky Way. NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the explosion in all its glory, showing the reverberation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}