{"id":75137,"date":"2025-11-30T03:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75137\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T03:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:47:11","slug":"stunning-cosmic-butterfly-image-captured-by-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75137\/","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":75138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[43712,40025,43708,756,43710,48,52,51,4423,47,50,49,63,23188,43711,6843,43713,43709,43707,43706,72],"class_list":["post-75137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bipolar-nebula","tag-chile","tag-cosmic-butterfly","tag-gas","tag-international-gemini-observatory","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-light-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-noirlab","tag-operation","tag-outer-layer","tag-schoolchildren","tag-stunning-new-picture","tag-telescope","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}