{"id":259584,"date":"2017-01-10T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b0beab449cc6f7106cd6308125893203"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:34:09","slug":"hubbles-front-row-seat-when-galaxies-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=259584","title":{"rendered":"Hubble&#8217;s front row seat when galaxies collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This delicate smudge in deep space is far more turbulent than it first appears. Known as IRAS 14348-1447\u2014a name derived in part from that of its discoverer, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS for short)\u2014this celestial object is actually a combination of two gas-rich spiral galaxies. This doomed duo approached one another too closely in the past, gravity causing them to affect and tug at each other and slowly, destructively, merge into one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This delicate smudge in deep space is far more turbulent than it first appears. Known as IRAS 14348-1447&mdash;a name derived in part from that of its discoverer, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS for short)&mdash;this celestial object is actually a combination of two gas-rich spiral galaxies. This doomed duo approached one another too closely in the past, gravity causing them to affect and tug at each other and slowly, destructively, merge into one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259584","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259585,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259584\/revisions\/259585"}],"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=259584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}