{"id":125741,"date":"2021-08-02T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/galactic-siblings-fight-in-vivid-nasa-hubble-image"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:23:01","slug":"galactic-siblings-fight-in-vivid-nasa-hubble-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/galactic-siblings-fight-in-vivid-nasa-hubble-image","title":{"rendered":"Galactic siblings fight in vivid NASA Hubble image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/galactic-siblings-fight-in-vivid-nasa-hubble-image2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image shows an elongated galaxy sandwiched, and stretched, between two galaxies. A <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.etsu.edu\/smithbj\/captions\/08507cap.html\">long tail<\/a> is visible in the galaxy on the right in this image: Called a \u201ctidal tail,\u201d this can occur when stars and gases are \u201cstripped\u201d from the outside arms of galaxies during a merger, <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/cosmos\/t\/Tidal+Tails\">according to Cosmos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Tweet may have been deleted<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hubble Space Telescope \u2014 the size of a large school bus \u2014 is over 30 years old. The solar-powered telescope takes detailed images of far-off cosmic objects, like Arp 195, yet the legendary instrument is wearing down with age, most recently exemplified by a computer problem that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/operations-underway-to-restore-payload-computer-on-nasas-hubble-space-telescope\">sent Hubble offline for weeks<\/a>. Still, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/operations-underway-to-restore-payload-computer-on-nasas-hubble-space-telescope\">NASA expects<\/a> \u201cHubble will last for many more years and will continue making groundbreaking observations, working in tandem with other space observatories including the James Webb Space Telescope to further our knowledge of the cosmos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image shows an elongated galaxy sandwiched, and stretched, between two galaxies. A long tail is visible in the galaxy on the right in this image: Called a \u201ctidal tail,\u201d this can occur when stars and gases are \u201cstripped\u201d from the outside arms of galaxies during a merger, according to Cosmos. Tweet may have been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125741","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=125741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}