{"id":133544,"date":"2022-01-04T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/in-photos-hubble-isnt-done-yet-as-ageing-space-telescope-sends-back-stunning-new-galactic-collision-images"},"modified":"2022-01-04T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:42:58","slug":"in-photos-hubble-isnt-done-yet-as-ageing-space-telescope-sends-back-stunning-new-galactic-collision-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/in-photos-hubble-isnt-done-yet-as-ageing-space-telescope-sends-back-stunning-new-galactic-collision-images","title":{"rendered":"In Photos: Hubble Isn\u2019t Done Yet As Ageing Space Telescope Sends Back Stunning New \u2018Galactic Collision\u2019 Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-photos-hubble-isnt-done-yet-as-ageing-space-telescope-sends-back-stunning-new-galactic-collision-images.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you thought the Hubble Space Telescope was about to be surpassed by the new James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), think again.<\/p>\n<p>Now on its way to its observing position a million miles from Earth, Webb has a 6.6 meter mirror\u2013compared to the 2.4-meter mirror inside Hubble\u2013so six times more collecting power.<\/p>\n<p>Should we compare Webb with Hubble? No\u2013Webb is an infrared telescope while Hubble deals mainly in optical (visible) light.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Hubble has just issued a stunning new image, one of several in the last few weeks, that prove that there\u2019s plenty of life left in the old space telescope yet.<\/p>\n<p>The main image of this article, above, was released yesterday and shows a spiral galaxy called NGC 105 about 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. It also shows, top-left, a smaller galaxy. Are the two colliding? No\u2013it\u2019s merely a chance alignment of the two objects in the night sky. That smaller galaxy is much further away.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the Hubble Space Telescope was about to be surpassed by the new James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), think again. Now on its way to its observing position a million miles from Earth, Webb has a 6.6 meter mirror\u2013compared to the 2.4-meter mirror inside Hubble\u2013so six times more collecting power. Should we compare [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133544","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}