{"id":700265,"date":"2021-08-27T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=700265"},"modified":"2021-08-27T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:14:00","slug":"cluster-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=700265","title":{"rendered":"Cluster in the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Cluster_in_the_cloud_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Picture of the Week shows an\u00a0open cluster\u00a0known as NGC 2164, which was first discovered in 1826 by a Scottish astronomer named James Dunlop. NGC 2164 is located within one of the Milky Way galaxy&#8217;s closest neighbours \u2014 the satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic cloud is a relatively small galaxy that lies about 160 000 light-years from Earth. It is considered a satellite galaxy because it is gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. In fact, the Large Magellanic cloud is on a very slow collision course with the Milky Way \u2014 it\u2019s predicted that they will collide 2.4 billion years from now.<\/p>\n<p>The Large Magellanic Cloud only contains about one hundredth as much mass as the Milky Way, but it still contains billions of stars. The open cluster NGC 2164 is in good company in the Large Magellanic Cloud \u2014 the satellite galaxy is home to roughly 700 open clusters, alongside about 60\u00a0globular clusters. This image of NGC 2164 was taken by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s\u00a0Wide Field Camera 3\u00a0(WFC3), which has previously imaged many other open clusters, including\u00a0NGC 330\u00a0and\u00a0Messier 11.<\/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\/2021\/08\/Cluster_in_the_cloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cluster in the cloud<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Picture of the Week shows an\u00a0open cluster\u00a0known as NGC 2164, which was first discovered in 1826 by a Scottish astronomer named James Dunlop. NGC 2164 is located within one&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700266,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700265","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\/700265","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=700265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/700266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}