{"id":225434,"date":"2015-03-06T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"adc8a0fc5f5c4d45813ffaf98148f2a5"},"modified":"2015-03-06T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T11:37:00","slug":"an-explosive-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225434","title":{"rendered":"An explosive quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/03\/an_explosive_quartet\/15297544-1-eng-GB\/An_explosive_quartet_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149+2223, whose light took over 5 billion years to reach us.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe huge mass of the cluster and one of the galaxies within it is bending the light from a supernova behind them and creating four separate images of it. The light has been magnified and distorted due to gravitational lensing and as a result the images are arranged around the elliptical galaxy in a formation known as an Einstein cross.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA close-up of the Einstein cross is shown in the inset.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/hubble\/55529-an-explosive-quartet-hubble-sees-multiple-images-of-a-supernova-for-the-very-first-time-heic1505\/\">An explosive quartet &#8211; Hubble sees multiple images of a supernova for the very first time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/03\/an_explosive_quartet\/15297544-1-eng-GB\/An_explosive_quartet_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows the huge galaxy cluster MACS J1149+2223, whose light took over 5 billion years to reach us.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe huge mass of the cluster and one of the galaxies within it is bending the light from a supernova behind them and creating four separate images of it. The light has been magnified and distorted due to gravitational lensing and as a result the images are arranged around the elliptical galaxy in a formation known as an Einstein cross.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA close-up of the Einstein cross is shown in the inset.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/hubble\/55529-an-explosive-quartet-hubble-sees-multiple-images-of-a-supernova-for-the-very-first-time-heic1505\/\">An explosive quartet &#8211; Hubble sees multiple images of a supernova for the very first time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225434","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\/225434","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225434\/revisions"}],"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=225434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}