{"id":787382,"date":"2024-08-16T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787382"},"modified":"2024-08-16T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:11:51","slug":"hubble-rings-in-a-new-galactic-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787382","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Rings in a New Galactic View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-0 padding-0\">Meanwhile, the classification of \u201cring galaxy\u201d is reserved for peculiar galaxies with a round ring of gas and star formation, much like spiral arms look, but\u00a0completely disconnected from the galactic nucleus\u00a0\u2014 or even\u00a0without any visible nucleus! They\u2019re thought to be formed in galactic collisions. Finally, there are the\u00a0famous gravitational lenses, where the ring is in fact a distorted image of a distant, background galaxy, formed by the \u2018lens\u2019 galaxy bending light around it.\u00a0Ring-shaped images, called Einstein rings, only form when the lensing and imaged galaxies are perfectly aligned.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-rings-in-a-new-galactic-view\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, the classification of \u201cring galaxy\u201d is reserved for peculiar galaxies with a round ring of gas and star formation, much like spiral arms look, but\u00a0completely disconnected from the galactic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787382","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\/787382","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=787382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}