{"id":653007,"date":"2020-04-24T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=653007"},"modified":"2020-04-24T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T09:14:00","slug":"stealing-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=653007","title":{"rendered":"Stealing the show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Stealing_the_show_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As beautiful as the surrounding space may be, the sparkling galaxy in the foreground of this image from the\u00a0NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0undeniably steals the show.<\/p>\n<p>This spotlight-hogging galaxy, seen set against a backdrop of more distant galaxies of all shapes and sizes, is known as PGC 29388. Although it dominates in this image, this galaxy is a small player on the cosmic stage, and is known as a\u00a0dwarf elliptical galaxy. As the \u201cdwarf\u201d moniker suggests, the galaxy is on the smaller side, and boasts a \u201cmere\u201d 100 million to a few billion stars \u2014 a very small number indeed when compared to the\u00a0Milky Way&#8217;s population of around 250 to 400 billion stellar residents.<\/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\/2020\/04\/Stealing_the_show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Stealing the show<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As beautiful as the surrounding space may be, the sparkling galaxy in the foreground of this image from the\u00a0NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0undeniably steals the show. This spotlight-hogging galaxy, seen set&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653008,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653007","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\/653007","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=653007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/653008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}