{"id":813598,"date":"2026-05-22T02:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/813598\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:38:15","slug":"telescope-captures-a-dying-star-resembling-a-crystal-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/813598\/","title":{"rendered":"Telescope captures a dying star resembling a crystal ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supernova-explosion-dying-star-9924d1cbfb8d8e5d9548defe38d7105a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dying star<\/a> has never looked so lovely. <\/p>\n<p>The Gemini North Telescope atop <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawaii-mauna-kea-volcano-spiritual-astronomy-7ae1c1d446b199f0b6f8709a77220dfe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii\u2019s tallest peak<\/a>, Mauna Kea, captured the star in its last gasps. The image was released Thursday 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 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 completed in color last week.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A dying star has never looked so lovely. The Gemini North Telescope atop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":813599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[4514,57,26621,81747,176783,159,4810,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-813598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-general-news","tag-hawaii","tag-hi-state-wire","tag-mauna-kea","tag-science","tag-stars","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116615912299241853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}