{"id":411305,"date":"2016-04-22T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b68a8886208951414710580865a7f683"},"modified":"2016-04-22T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T08:41:00","slug":"herschels-view-of-the-galactic-plane-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=411305","title":{"rendered":"Herschel&#8217;s view of the Galactic Plane"},"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\/2016\/04\/herschel_s_view_of_the_galactic_plane\/15950564-1-eng-GB\/Herschel_s_view_of_the_Galactic_Plane_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis video shows a wealth of bright sources, wispy filaments and bubbling nebulas against the background of diffuse gas and dust, marking the spots where stars are being born in the Galaxy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe video was compiled by stitching together several hundred hours of Herschel observations obtained as part of the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey. It spans a vast portion \u2013 almost 40% \u2013 of the plane of the Milky Way, where most of the stars in the Galaxy form and reside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nShaped as a disc, our Galaxy has a diameter of about 100 000 light-years and the Solar System is embedded in it, about half way between centre and periphery. From our vantage point, this huge disc of stars, gas and dust appears as a circular strip wound around the sky, familiar as the Milky Way in the night sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe view is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 350 microns (red).\n<\/p>\n<p>Credit: ESA\/Herschel\/PACS, SPIRE\/Hi-GAL Project<br \/>Acknowledgement: G. Li Causi, IAPS\/INAF, Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/04\/herschel_s_view_of_the_galactic_plane\/15950564-1-eng-GB\/Herschel_s_view_of_the_Galactic_Plane_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThis video shows a wealth of bright sources, wispy filaments and bubbling nebulas against the background of diffuse gas and dust, marking the spots where stars are being born in the Galaxy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe video was compiled by stitching together several hundred hours of Herschel observations obtained as part of the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey. It spans a vast portion &ndash; almost 40% &ndash; of the plane of the Milky Way, where most of the stars in the Galaxy form and reside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nShaped as a disc, our Galaxy has a diameter of about 100 000 light-years and the Solar System is embedded in it, about half way between centre and periphery. From our vantage point, this huge disc of stars, gas and dust appears as a circular strip wound around the sky, familiar as the Milky Way in the night sky.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe view is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 350 microns (red).\n<\/p>\n<p>Credit: ESA\/Herschel\/PACS, SPIRE\/Hi-GAL Project<br \/>Acknowledgement: G. Li Causi, IAPS\/INAF, Italy<\/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-411305","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\/411305","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=411305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411306,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411305\/revisions\/411306"}],"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=411305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}