{"id":395926,"date":"2026-04-24T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/395926\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:59:12","slug":"the-day-of-the-trifid-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/395926\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day of the Trifid Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in intricate detail by NASA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> in an image released on April 20, 2026. The colors in Hubble\u2019s visible light image, which marks the 36th anniversary of the mission\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/overview\/the-history-of-hubble\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">launch<\/a>\u00a0on April 24, are reminiscent of an underwater scene filled with fine-grained sediments fluttering through the ocean\u2019s depths.<\/p>\n<p>Several massive stars, which are outside this field of view, have shaped this region for at least 300,000 years. Their powerful winds continue to blow an enormous bubble, a small portion of which is shown here, that pushes and compresses the cloud\u2019s gas and dust, triggering new waves of star formation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/nasas-hubble-dazzles-with-young-stars-in-trifid-nebula\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about the Trifid Nebula.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[20270,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-395926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-nebulae","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395926","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=395926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}