{"id":2238,"date":"2025-05-31T15:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=2238"},"modified":"2025-05-31T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:54:07","slug":"north-america-and-butterfly-nebulae","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/blog-post\/north-america-and-butterfly-nebulae\/","title":{"rendered":"North America and Butterfly Nebulae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>North America Nebula<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>NGC 7000<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Caldwell 20<\/strong>) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to\u00a0the star Deneb, (the tail of the Cygnus the swan and its brightest star) in the\u00a0night sky. It has this name because its shape resembles North America. Also included in this image is the butterfly nebula in another widefield, 135mm shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/northamerica-butterfly-widefield-cr-1-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"NorthAmerica and Butterfly nebulae\" class=\"wp-image-2239 pp_post_image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/northamerica-butterfly-widefield-cr-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/northamerica-butterfly-widefield-cr-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/northamerica-butterfly-widefield-cr-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/northamerica-butterfly-widefield-cr-1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/northamerica-butterfly-widefield-cr-1-2048x1369.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NorthAmerica and Butterfly nebulae<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0North America Nebula\u00a0(NGC 7000\u00a0or\u00a0Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to\u00a0the star Deneb, (the tail of the Cygnus<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/blog-post\/north-america-and-butterfly-nebulae\/\">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-2238","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\/2238","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=2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}