{"id":226010,"date":"2025-11-27T00:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/telescope-in-chile-captures-stunning-new-picture-of-a-cosmic-butterfly"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:30:39","slug":"telescope-in-chile-captures-stunning-new-picture-of-a-cosmic-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/telescope-in-chile-captures-stunning-new-picture-of-a-cosmic-butterfly","title":{"rendered":"Telescope in Chile captures stunning new picture of a cosmic butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/telescope-in-chile-captures-stunning-new-picture-of-a-cosmic-butterfly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<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 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation\u2019s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226010","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}