{"id":405322,"date":"2017-11-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=74b3dfa873ad96792591e63df191147e"},"modified":"2017-11-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:00:00","slug":"merging-galaxies-in-the-early-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=405322","title":{"rendered":"Merging galaxies in the early Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/11\/merging_galaxies_in_the_early_universe\/17248482-1-eng-GB\/Merging_galaxies_in_the_early_Universe_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scrutinising&nbsp;several hundred thousand galaxies observed at infrared and submillimetre&nbsp;wavelengths by ESA\u2019s Herschel space observatory,&nbsp;astronomers have&nbsp;identified a very rare instance of a massive object in the very early&nbsp;Universe.<br \/>\nThis&nbsp;video initially shows the Herschel survey of galaxies (blue and&nbsp;green) and zooms in to the interesting source that the&nbsp;astronomers&nbsp;had singled out, including follow-up observations performed with the&nbsp;Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX; red).<br \/>\nFinally,&nbsp;the video shows further observations obtained with the Atacama Large&nbsp;Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at higher&nbsp;resolution. These&nbsp;observations revealed that the source consists not just of one&nbsp;ancient, massive galaxy, but of a pair of distinct&nbsp;massive galaxies&nbsp;about to merge.<br \/>These&nbsp;two galaxies, each roughly as massive as our Milky Way, were&nbsp;informally dubbed the \u2018Horse\u2019 and the \u2018Dragon\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull&nbsp;story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Herschel\/Herschel_discovers_galaxy_merger_in_the_very_early_Universe\">Herschel discovers galaxy merger in the very early Universe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/11\/merging_galaxies_in_the_early_universe\/17248482-1-eng-GB\/Merging_galaxies_in_the_early_Universe_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>Scrutinising&nbsp;several hundred thousand galaxies observed at infrared and submillimetre&nbsp;wavelengths by ESA&rsquo;s Herschel space observatory,&nbsp;astronomers have&nbsp;identified a very rare instance of a massive object in the very early&nbsp;Universe.<br \/>\nThis&nbsp;video initially shows the Herschel survey of galaxies (blue and&nbsp;green) and zooms in to the interesting source that the&nbsp;astronomers&nbsp;had singled out, including follow-up observations performed with the&nbsp;Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX; red).<br \/>\nFinally,&nbsp;the video shows further observations obtained with the Atacama Large&nbsp;Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at higher&nbsp;resolution. These&nbsp;observations revealed that the source consists not just of one&nbsp;ancient, massive galaxy, but of a pair of distinct&nbsp;massive galaxies&nbsp;about to merge.<br \/>These&nbsp;two galaxies, each roughly as massive as our Milky Way, were&nbsp;informally dubbed the &lsquo;Horse&rsquo; and the &lsquo;Dragon&rsquo;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull&nbsp;story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Herschel\/Herschel_discovers_galaxy_merger_in_the_very_early_Universe\">Herschel discovers galaxy merger in the very early Universe<\/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-405322","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\/405322","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=405322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405323,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405322\/revisions\/405323"}],"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=405322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}