{"id":3926087,"date":"2026-05-21T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/gaze-into-the-crystal-ball-nebula-and-see-the-light-emitted-by-a-dying-star-1500-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:04:21","slug":"gaze-into-the-crystal-ball-nebula-and-see-the-light-emitted-by-a-dying-star-1500-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/gaze-into-the-crystal-ball-nebula-and-see-the-light-emitted-by-a-dying-star-1500-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaze into the Crystal Ball Nebula and see the light emitted by a dying star 1,500 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope, located on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai&#8217;i, has captured NGC 1514, nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula, in awe-inspiring detail. This nebula, with its mesmerizing glow of gas, harbors hints of a past stellar death, and its asymmetrical shell is now being shaped by the pair of binary stars that lie at its center.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-crystal-ball-nebula-emitted-dying.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope, located on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai&#8217;i, has captured NGC 1514, nicknamed the Crystal Ball Nebula, in awe-inspiring detail. This nebula, with its mesmerizing glow of gas, harbors hints of a past stellar death, and its asymmetrical shell is now being shaped by the pair of binary stars that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}