{"id":25993,"date":"2024-06-17T04:56:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25993"},"modified":"2024-06-17T04:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T04:56:35","slug":"25993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25993","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2406\/SquidOu4_Linde_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div> Squids on Earth aren&#8217;t this big. This mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud spans nearly three full moons on planet Earth&#8217;s sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula&#8217;s bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, one investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, the cosmic squid would represent a spectacular outflow of material driven by a triple system of hot, massive stars, cataloged as HR8119, seen near the center of the nebula. If so, this truly giant squid nebula would physically be over 50 light-years across. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240617.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squids on Earth aren&#8217;t this big. This mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud spans nearly three full moons on planet Earth&#8217;s sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25993\" 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-25993","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\/25993","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=25993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25994,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25993\/revisions\/25994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}