{"id":203665,"date":"2025-11-27T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/203665\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:25:10","slug":"stunning-new-picture-of-cosmic-butterfly-captured-by-telescope-in-chile-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/203665\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning new picture of cosmic butterfly captured by telescope in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeminiObs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Geminiobs<\/a> South&#8217;s 25th Anniversary with this photo! \ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 Say hello to NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula. NGC 6302 is a bipolar planetary nebula that lies between 2500 and 3800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.  \ud83d\udd2d\ud83c\udf82<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 GeminiObs\/NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dyBwbAUFn1\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dyBwbAUFn1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NOIRLab (@NOIRLabAstro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOIRLabAstro\/status\/1993729774326329735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">A single light-year is six trillion miles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At the heart of this bipolar nebula is a white dwarf star that cast aside its outer layers of gas long ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The discarded gas forms the butterfly-like wings billowing from the ageing star, whose heat causes the gas to glow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Schoolchildren in Chile chose this astronomical target to celebrate 25 years of operation by the International Gemini Observatory.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[2672,18,19,17,8506,2104,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-203665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-digital","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-place-international","13":"tag-place-uk","14":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115623777024890461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}