{"id":513877,"date":"2026-06-02T01:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/513877\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T01:08:41","slug":"dying-star-resembles-a-billowing-crystal-ball-in-new-telescope-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/513877\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying star resembles a billowing crystal ball in new telescope photo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A dying star has never looked so lovely. <\/p>\n<p>The Gemini North Telescope atop Hawaii\u2019s tallest peak, Mauna Kea, captured the star in its last gasps. The image was released by the National Science Foundation\u2019s NOIRLab, which operates the telescope. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s actually a binary star system 1,500 light-years away, nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula because of the milky white, spherical cloud around it. A light-year is almost 6 trillion miles.<\/p>\n<p>This cloud of gas forms when a star sheds its outer layers near the end of its life. The exposed stellar core heats the cloud to tens of thousands of degrees, giving it an ethereal glow. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe that one of the planetary nebula\u2019s two orbiting stars \u2014 once bigger than our sun \u2014 gave up the ghost.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini North last year observed the nebula \u2014 formally known as NGC 1514 \u2014 and the image was then completed in color last week.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A dying star has never looked so lovely. The Gemini North Telescope atop Hawaii\u2019s tallest peak,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[77],"tags":[222633,6255,18,222636,8241,19,4615,17,113617,222638,222634,31766,133,222632,11186,222637,222635,26372,17720],"class_list":["post-513877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-billowing-crystal-ball","tag-degree","tag-eire","tag-gas-form","tag-hawaii","tag-ie","tag-image","tag-ireland","tag-light-year","tag-mauna-kea","tag-new-telescope-photo","tag-planetary-nebula","tag-science","tag-spherical-cloud","tag-star","tag-stellar-core","tag-tall-peak","tag-ten","tag-thousand"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116677843941706635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513877","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=513877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}