{"id":117586,"date":"2020-12-24T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/hubble-captures-a-clear-shot-of-a-molten-ring"},"modified":"2020-12-24T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:22:29","slug":"hubble-captures-a-clear-shot-of-a-molten-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/hubble-captures-a-clear-shot-of-a-molten-ring","title":{"rendered":"Hubble captures a clear shot of a \u2018Molten Ring\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-captures-a-clear-shot-of-a-molten-ring2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The distorted galaxy gets its elegant look thanks to the phenomenon of gravitational lensing.<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re really seeing is a unique, lucky view of distant GAL-CLUS-022058s, which is far beyond the elliptical galaxy at the center of this shot. As the light from GAL-CLUS-02258s streams past the closer elliptical, the latter galaxy\u2019s gravity bends in the path of the passing light, amplifying and distorting it into the view we see here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The distorted galaxy gets its elegant look thanks to the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. What we\u2019re really seeing is a unique, lucky view of distant GAL-CLUS-022058s, which is far beyond the elliptical galaxy at the center of this shot. As the light from GAL-CLUS-02258s streams past the closer elliptical, the latter galaxy\u2019s gravity bends in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117586","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}