{"id":232612,"date":"2015-08-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"2c3a531e039ec2fb45b0dca63a3b91a3"},"modified":"2015-08-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:00:00","slug":"x-ray-view-of-the-galactic-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=232612","title":{"rendered":"X-ray view of the Galactic Centre"},"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\/08\/x-ray_view_of_the_galactic_centre\/15561702-2-eng-GB\/X-ray_view_of_the_Galactic_Centre_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe central regions of our galaxy, the Milky Way, seen in X-rays by ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image portrays powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas, showing us an unprecedented view of the Milky Way&#8217;s energetic core. It was put together in a new study by compiling all observations of this region that were performed with XMM-Newton, adding up to over one month of monitoring in total.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image combines data collected at energies from 0.5 to 2 keV (shown in red), 2 to 4.5 keV (shown in green) and 4.5 to 12 keV (shown in blue). It spans about 2.5\u00ba across, equivalent to about one thousand light-years.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/The_tumultuous_heart_of_our_Galaxy\">The tumultuous heart of our galaxy<\/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\/08\/x-ray_view_of_the_galactic_centre\/15561702-2-eng-GB\/X-ray_view_of_the_Galactic_Centre_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe central regions of our galaxy, the Milky Way, seen in X-rays by ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image portrays powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas, showing us an unprecedented view of the Milky Way&#8217;s energetic core. It was put together in a new study by compiling all observations of this region that were performed with XMM-Newton, adding up to over one month of monitoring in total.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image combines data collected at energies from 0.5 to 2 keV (shown in red), 2 to 4.5 keV (shown in green) and 4.5 to 12 keV (shown in blue). It spans about 2.5\u00ba across, equivalent to about one thousand light-years.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/The_tumultuous_heart_of_our_Galaxy\">The tumultuous heart of our galaxy<\/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-232612","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\/232612","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=232612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232612\/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=232612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}