{"id":213650,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213650-thor-s-helmet-06-09-26","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213650","headline":"Thor's Helmet • 06/09/26","content":"\u003cp\u003eNASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens.  Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown by a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. This sharp image is a combination of deep images taken in light emitted by hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue).  The star in the center of Thor's Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years.   Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (after 1995)\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhoto by Josep Drudis,\nChristian Sasse\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:\n\nThor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens.  Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown by a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. This sharp image is a combination of deep images taken in light emitted by hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue).  The star in the center of Thor's Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years.   Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (after 1995)\n\n\nPhoto by Josep Drudis,\nChristian Sasse","published_at":"2026-06-09T14:16:00-07:00","updated_at":"2026-06-09T17:25:12-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Specola","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/298285-specola"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Specola on Kudos 365. View their photo published Jun/09/2026 on Science - Tech - Astronomy. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/apod/generated/fe81c716-290e-4e47-a692-5f90e154e768.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","likes_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Science - Tech - Astronomy","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/986-science-tech-astronomy"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/213650-thor-s-helmet-06-09-26","headline":"Thor's Helmet • 06/09/26","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/apod/generated/fe81c716-290e-4e47-a692-5f90e154e768.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Specola","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/298285-specola"},"datePublished":"2026-06-09T14:16:00-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":1}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Science - Tech - Astronomy","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/986-science-tech-astronomy"}]}}