{"id":367307,"date":"2026-02-13T02:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=b9f8962f83d58c3e05dd6157f31313ea"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:07:23","slug":"shimmering-light-in-egg-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=367307","title":{"rendered":"Shimmering Light in Egg Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. This structure of gas and dust was created by a dying, Sun-like star. These newest observations were taken with Hubble\u2019s Wide Field Camera 3.<\/div>\n
NASA, ESA, Bruce Balick (UWashington)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This image from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> released on Feb. 10, 2026, reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust. Located approximately 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Egg Nebula features a central star obscured by a dense cloud of dust \u2014 like a \u201cyolk\u201d nestled within a dark, opaque \u201cegg white.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is the first, youngest, and closest pre-planetary nebula ever discovered. (A pre-planetary nebula is a precursor stage of a planetary nebula, which is a structure of gas and dust formed from the ejected layers of a dying, Sun-like star. The term is a misnomer, as planetary nebulae are not related to planets.) <\/p>\n

Read more about the Egg Nebula.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA, ESA, Bruce Balick (UWashington)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This image from NASA\u2019s\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0released on Feb. 10, 2026, reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust. Located approximately 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Egg Nebula features a central star obscured by a dense cloud of dust \u2014 like a \u201cyolk\u201d nestled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nebulae"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367379,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367307\/revisions\/367379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}