{"id":663936,"date":"2020-08-14T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663936"},"modified":"2020-08-14T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T07:52:00","slug":"ring-of-stellar-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663936","title":{"rendered":"Ring of stellar wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ring_of_stellar_wildfire_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,\u00a0 is an eccentrically-shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from Earth and is nestled in the southern constellation of\u00a0Eridanus\u00a0(The River).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NGC 1614 is the result of a past\u00a0galactic merger\u00a0which created its peculiar appearance. The cosmic collision also drove a turbulent flow of interstellar gas from the smaller of the two galaxies involved\u00a0 into the nucleus of the larger one, resulting in a burst of star formation which started in the core and slowly spread outwards through the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to its turbulent past and its current appearance, astronomers classify NGC 1614 as a peculiar galaxy, a starburst galaxy, and a\u00a0luminous infrared galaxy. Luminous infrared galaxies are among the most luminous objects in the local Universe \u2014 and NGC 1614 is, in fact, the second most luminous galaxy within 250 million light-years.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2020\/08\/Ring_of_stellar_wildfire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ring of stellar wildfire<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,\u00a0 is an eccentrically-shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from Earth and is nestled in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663937,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663936","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\/663936","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=663936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/663937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}