{"id":708176,"date":"2021-11-12T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708176"},"modified":"2021-11-12T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:17:00","slug":"cosmological-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708176","title":{"rendered":"Cosmological curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cosmological_curiosity_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image from the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the\u00a0spiral galaxy\u00a0Mrk 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Hubble\u2019s\u00a0Wide Field Camera 3\u00a0snapped Mrk 1337 at a\u00a0wide range of ultraviolet, visible and infrared wavelengths, producing this richly detailed image. Mrk 1337 is a weakly barred spiral galaxy, which as the name suggests means that the spiral arms radiate from a central bar of gas and stars. Bars occur in roughly half of spiral galaxies, including our own galaxy the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>These observations are part of a campaign to improve our knowledge of how fast the universe is expanding. They were proposed by Adam Riess, who was awarded a Nobel Laureate in physics 2011 for his contributions to the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe, alongside Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt.<\/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\/11\/Cosmological_curiosity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cosmological curiosity<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image from the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the\u00a0spiral galaxy\u00a0Mrk 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Hubble\u2019s\u00a0Wide Field Camera 3\u00a0snapped Mrk&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708177,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708176","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\/708176","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=708176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/708177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}