{"id":100817,"date":"2020-01-13T19:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/breathtaking-image-shows-powerful-magnetic-ropes-surrounding-the-whale-galaxy"},"modified":"2020-01-13T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T03:46:44","slug":"breathtaking-image-shows-powerful-magnetic-ropes-surrounding-the-whale-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/breathtaking-image-shows-powerful-magnetic-ropes-surrounding-the-whale-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Breathtaking Image Shows Powerful Magnetic \u2018Ropes\u2019 Surrounding The Whale Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breathtaking-image-shows-powerful-magnetic-ropes-surrounding-the-whale-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you just have to stand back in awe at the beauty of the Universe \u2013 and that\u2019s absolutely the case with this image from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Radio_Astronomy_Observatory\">National Radio Astronomy Observatory<\/a> (NRAO), which captures the side view of a spiral galaxy know as the Whale Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>But if you look closer, the stunning picture also shows something else: the magnetic \u2018ropes\u2019 around the edges of the galaxy\u2019s disc.<\/p>\n<p>These filaments, like cosmic strands of hair, show the galaxy\u2019s magnetic field extending into its halo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just have to stand back in awe at the beauty of the Universe \u2013 and that\u2019s absolutely the case with this image from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which captures the side view of a spiral galaxy know as the Whale Galaxy. But if you look closer, the stunning picture also shows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}