{"id":160225,"date":"2025-11-29T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:25:07","slug":"stunning-cosmic-butterfly-image-captured-by-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160225\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning cosmic butterfly image captured by telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. <\/p>\n<p>The National Science Foundation\u2019s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope, the aptly named Butterfly Nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. A single light-year is 6 trillion miles.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of this bipolar nebula is a white dwarf star that cast aside its outer layers of gas long ago. The discarded gas forms the butterfly-like wings billowing from the aging star, whose heat causes the gas to glow. <\/p>\n<p>Schoolchildren in Chile chose this astronomical target to celebrate 25 years of operation by the International Gemini Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[104104,25291,104341,16460,105474,105472,9576,17060,111,139,104491,69,17286,105475,105473,147,105471,3929,379],"class_list":["post-160225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-bipolar-nebula","tag-chile","tag-cosmic-butterfly","tag-gas","tag-international-gemini-observatory","tag-light-year","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-noirlab","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-outer-layer","tag-schoolchildren","tag-science","tag-stunning-new-picture","tag-telescope","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}