{"id":640566,"date":"2019-12-13T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640566"},"modified":"2019-12-13T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T09:13:00","slug":"galactic-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640566","title":{"rendered":"Galactic diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Galactic_diversity_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of\u00a0Antlia (The Air Pump). The galaxy can be seen slicing across the frame in this image from the\u00a0NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with its mix of bright patches of glowing gas, dark lanes of dust, bright core, and whirling, pinwheeling arms coming together to paint a beautiful celestial scene.<\/p>\n<p>The galaxy is the eponymous member of the NGC 3175 group, which has been called a nearby analogue for\u00a0the Local Group. The Local Group contains our very own home galaxy, the\u00a0Milky Way, and around 50 others \u2014 a mix of spiral, irregular, and dwarf galaxies. The NGC 3175 group contains a couple of large spiral galaxies \u2014 the subject of this image, and NGC 3137 \u2014 and numerous lower-mass spiral and satellite galaxies.\u00a0Galaxy groups\u00a0are some of the most common galactic gatherings in the cosmos, and they comprise 50 or so galaxies all bound together by gravity.<\/p>\n<p>This image comprises observations from Hubble\u2019s\u00a0Wide Field Camera 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2019\/12\/Galactic_diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Galactic diversity<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of\u00a0Antlia (The Air Pump). The galaxy can be seen slicing across the frame in this image from the\u00a0NASA\/ESA&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640567,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640566","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\/640566","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/640567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}