{"id":781418,"date":"2024-04-26T08:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=781418"},"modified":"2024-04-26T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:54:01","slug":"hubble-spots-a-magnificent-barred-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=781418","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Spots a Magnificent Barred Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-0 padding-0\">The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of\u00a0Canis Major\u00a0(The Greater Dog), in this image taken by the\u00a0NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Roughly 65 million light-years from Earth, this\u00a0barred spiral galaxy\u00a0is a similar size to our Milky Way at 100,000 light-years across. Many stars are concentrated in its central region forming the luminous bar, surrounded by a set of tightly wound spiral arms.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-spots-a-magnificent-barred-galaxy\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of\u00a0Canis Major\u00a0(The Greater Dog), in this image taken by the\u00a0NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781418","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=781418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}