{"id":240277,"date":"2016-03-31T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=693b3e9e279c9d9f245e0ff62e5ec378"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:37:00","slug":"the-galactic-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240277","title":{"rendered":"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\/2016\/03\/the_galactic_centre\/15918393-1-eng-GB\/The_galactic_centre_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis infrared image from the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of the Milky Way, 27 000 light-years away from Earth. Using the infrared capabilities of Hubble, astronomers were able to peer through the dust which normally obscures the view of this interesting region. At the centre of this nuclear star cluster \u2013 and also in the centre of this image \u2013 the Milky Way&#8217;s supermassive black hole is located.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more about this Hubble image in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/hubble\/57664-journey-to-the-centre-of-our-galaxy-heic1606\/\" title=\"Journey to the centre of our galaxy\" >Journey to the centre of our galaxy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/03\/the_galactic_centre\/15918393-1-eng-GB\/The_galactic_centre_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThis infrared image from the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of the Milky Way, 27 000 light-years away from Earth. Using the infrared capabilities of Hubble, astronomers were able to peer through the dust which normally obscures the view of this interesting region. At the centre of this nuclear star cluster &ndash; and also in the centre of this image &ndash; the Milky Way&#8217;s supermassive black hole is located.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more about this Hubble image in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/hubble\/57664-journey-to-the-centre-of-our-galaxy-heic1606\/\" title=\"Journey to the centre of our galaxy\" target=\"_blank\">Journey to the centre 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-240277","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\/240277","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=240277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240278,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240277\/revisions\/240278"}],"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=240277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}