{"id":659181,"date":"2020-06-26T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=659181"},"modified":"2020-06-26T04:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T08:57:00","slug":"hubble-watches-the-flapping-of-cosmic-bat-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=659181","title":{"rendered":"Hubble watches the \u201cflapping\u201d of cosmic bat shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Hubble_watches_the_flapping_of_cosmic_bat_shadow_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The young star HBC 672 is known by its nickname of Bat Shadow because of its wing-like shadow feature. The NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has now observed a curious \u201cflapping\u201d motion in the shadow of the star\u2019s disc for the first time. The star resides in a stellar nursery called the Serpens Nebula, about 1300 light-years away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/news\/heic2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/06\/Hubble_watches_the_flapping_of_cosmic_bat_shadow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hubble watches the \u201cflapping\u201d of cosmic bat shadow<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young star HBC 672 is known by its nickname of Bat Shadow because of its wing-like shadow feature. The NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has now observed a curious \u201cflapping\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659182,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659181","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/659182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}