{"id":329351,"date":"2017-06-13T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/170613102104.htm"},"modified":"2017-06-13T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:21:04","slug":"vst-captures-eagle-nebula-and-close-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=329351","title":{"rendered":"VST captures Eagle Nebula and close companions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the sky&#8217;s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbor in an enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO&#8217;s VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies Sharpless 2-54, the iconic Eagle Nebula is in the center, and the Omega Nebula to the left. This cosmic trio makes up just a portion of a vast complex of gas and dust within which new stars are springing to life and illuminating their surroundings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the sky&#8217;s more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbor in an enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO&#8217;s VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies Sharpless 2-54, the iconic Eagle Nebula is in the center, and the Omeg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329352,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329351\/revisions\/329352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}