{"id":23163,"date":"2019-10-31T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23163"},"modified":"2019-10-31T04:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T04:57:12","slug":"the-ghostly-veil-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23163","title":{"rendered":"The Ghostly Veil Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1910\/ghostlyVeilNebula1034.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>A ghostly visage on a cosmic scale, these remains of shocked, glowing gas haunt planet Earth&#8217;s sky toward the constellation of Cygnus and form the Veil Nebula. The nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the original supernova explosion likely reached Earth over 5,000 years ago. Also known as the Cygnus Loop, the Veil Nebula now spans nearly 3 degrees or about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon. That translates to over 70 light-years at its estimated distance of 1,500 light-years. In fact, the Veil is so large its brighter parts are recognized as separate nebulae, including The Witch&#8217;s Broom (NGC 6960) below and right of center. At the top left you can find the Spectre of IC 1340. Happy Halloween! via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap191031.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ghostly visage on a cosmic scale, these remains of shocked, glowing gas haunt planet Earth&#8217;s sky toward the constellation of Cygnus and form the Veil Nebula. The nebula itself <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23163\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23164,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23163\/revisions\/23164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}