{"id":82077,"date":"2018-08-26T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/photo-fluorescent-planetary-nebula-4900-light-years-away"},"modified":"2018-08-26T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T16:42:25","slug":"photo-fluorescent-planetary-nebula-4900-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/photo-fluorescent-planetary-nebula-4900-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Photo: Fluorescent planetary nebula 4,900 light-years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photo-fluorescent-planetary-nebula-4900-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of planetary nebula NGC 3918, which is a part of the Centaurus constellation about 4,900 light-years from Earth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-feature\/goddard\/2018\/a-piercing-celestial-eye-stares-back-at-hubble\" class=\"\">according to NASA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Between the lines: <\/strong>A planetary nebula is a cloud of colorful gasses which surrounds a dying star \u2014 known as a red giant, according to NASA. The remnants of the star give off the light, which reflects in the gasses and creates the beautiful, dramatic colors seen in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>Space.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/photo-flouresent-nebula-space-hubble-space-telescope-bcdb03a7-3baf-43aa-8069-2670412964bd.html\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/photo-flouresent-nebula-space-hubble-s...964bd.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of planetary nebula NGC 3918, which is a part of the Centaurus constellation about 4,900 light-years from Earth, according to NASA. Between the lines: A planetary nebula is a cloud of colorful gasses which surrounds a dying star \u2014 known as a red giant, according to NASA. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82077","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}