{"id":655690,"date":"2020-05-22T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=655690"},"modified":"2020-05-22T04:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T08:02:00","slug":"stellar-glitter-in-a-field-of-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=655690","title":{"rendered":"Stellar glitter in a field of black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Stellar_glitter_in_a_field_of_black_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike a\u00a0spiral\u00a0or\u00a0elliptical\u00a0galaxy, the galaxy KK 246 looks like glitter spilled across a black velvet sheet. KK 246, also known as ESO 461-036, is a\u00a0dwarf\u00a0irregular galaxy\u00a0residing within the\u00a0Local Void, a vast region of empty space. This lonely galaxy is the only one known for certain to reside in this enormous volume, along with 15 others that have been tentatively identified.<\/p>\n<p>Although the picture appears to be full of galaxies, they are actually beyond this void, and instead form part of other\u00a0galaxy groups or clusters.\u00a0Cosmic voids, such as this one, are the spaces within the\u00a0web-like structure of the Universe\u00a0wherein very few or no galaxies exist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adjacent to the\u00a0Local Group, this region of empty space is at least 150 million light-years across. For perspective, our own Milky Way galaxy is estimated to be 150 000 light-years across, making this void immense in its nothingness.<\/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\/05\/Stellar_glitter_in_a_field_of_black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Stellar glitter in a field of black<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike a\u00a0spiral\u00a0or\u00a0elliptical\u00a0galaxy, the galaxy KK 246 looks like glitter spilled across a black velvet sheet. KK 246, also known as ESO 461-036, is a\u00a0dwarf\u00a0irregular galaxy\u00a0residing within the\u00a0Local Void, a vast&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655691,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655690","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\/655690","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=655690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/655691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}