{"id":612129,"date":"2019-04-26T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9f811a3fd58acc19a734eabf1d8faa88"},"modified":"2019-04-26T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:15:00","slug":"crowded-cluster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=612129","title":{"rendered":"Crowded cluster"},"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\/2019\/04\/crowded_cluster\/19360155-1-eng-GB\/Crowded_cluster_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a&nbsp;globular cluster: a spherical collection of stars bound together by gravity. Clusters like this orbit around galaxies and typically reside in their outer and less-crowded areas, gathering to form dense communities in the galactic suburbs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMessier 75 lies in the constellation of&nbsp;Sagittarius (The Archer), around 67 000 light-years away from Earth. The majority of the cluster\u2019s stars, about 400 000 intotal, are found in its core; it is one of the most densely populated clusters ever found, with a phenomenal luminosity of some 180 000 times that of the Sun. No wonder it photographs so well!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDiscovered in 1780 by Pierre M\u00e9chain, Messier 75 was also observed by Charles Messier and added to his catalogue later that year. This image of Messier 75 was captured by the&nbsp;NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s&nbsp;Advanced Camera for Surveys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a&nbsp;globular cluster: a spherical collection of stars bound together by gravity. Clusters like this orbit around galaxies and typically reside in their outer and less-crowded areas, gath&#8230;<\/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-612129","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\/612129","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=612129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612130,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612129\/revisions\/612130"}],"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=612129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}