{"id":109126,"date":"2020-06-25T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nasa-says-hubble-observed-a-flapping-shadow-in-distant-space"},"modified":"2020-06-25T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:05:41","slug":"nasa-says-hubble-observed-a-flapping-shadow-in-distant-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nasa-says-hubble-observed-a-flapping-shadow-in-distant-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA Says Hubble Observed a \u201cFlapping Shadow\u201d in Distant Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SVb0V4tin64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The star may be extremely young, but its ring of rock and dust is enormous. The size of just the shadow alone would be hundreds of times the size our entire solar system, according to NASA. Light would take more than a month to travel that distance.<\/p>\n<p>By taking additional pictures using filters, the team was able to create a gorgeous, colored image of the star and its \u201cbat shadow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/hubble-sees-cosmic-flapping-bat-shadow\">Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping \u2018Bat Shadow\u2019<\/a> [NASA]<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The star may be extremely young, but its ring of rock and dust is enormous. The size of just the shadow alone would be hundreds of times the size our entire solar system, according to NASA. Light would take more than a month to travel that distance. By taking additional pictures using filters, the team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}