{"id":1399,"date":"2024-05-25T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T01:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=1399"},"modified":"2024-05-25T19:18:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T01:18:01","slug":"featured-image-iris-nebula","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/blog-post\/featured-image-iris-nebula\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Image: Iris Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>The&nbsp;<strong>Iris Nebula<\/strong>&nbsp;(also known as&nbsp;<strong>NGC 7023<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caldwell_catalogue\"><strong>Caldwell<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;4<\/strong>) is a bright&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reflection_nebula\">reflection nebula<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constellation\">constellation<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cepheus_(constellation)\">Cepheus<\/a>. The designation NGC 7023 refers to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_cluster\">open cluster<\/a>&nbsp;within the larger reflection nebula designated LBN 487.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Distance from Earth:&nbsp;<\/strong>1,300&nbsp;LY (distance light travels in 1 Earth year, or approximately 6 trillion miles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"611\" src=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3740d380-0ea3-4a43-8e4b-b30e92251f87.jpeg\" alt=\"Iris Nebula\" class=\"wp-image-1397 pp_post_image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3740d380-0ea3-4a43-8e4b-b30e92251f87.jpeg 611w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3740d380-0ea3-4a43-8e4b-b30e92251f87-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3740d380-0ea3-4a43-8e4b-b30e92251f87-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Iris Nebula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Iris Nebula&nbsp;(also known as&nbsp;NGC 7023&nbsp;and&nbsp;Caldwell&nbsp;4) is a bright&nbsp;reflection nebula&nbsp;in the&nbsp;constellation&nbsp;Cepheus. The designation NGC 7023 refers to the&nbsp;open cluster&nbsp;within the larger reflection nebula<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/blog-post\/featured-image-iris-nebula\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"tags":[],"blog-category":[],"class_list":["post-1399","blog_post","type-blog_post","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}