{"id":136613,"date":"2022-03-11T00:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/sublime-new-hubble-image-reveals-a-thrilling-exchange-between-two-galaxies"},"modified":"2022-03-11T00:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:41:01","slug":"sublime-new-hubble-image-reveals-a-thrilling-exchange-between-two-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/sublime-new-hubble-image-reveals-a-thrilling-exchange-between-two-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Sublime New Hubble Image Reveals a Thrilling Exchange Between Two Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C0XNyTp5brM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing interaction between two galaxies 320 million light-years away has been captured in a gorgeous Hubble image.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re collectively known as Arp 282 in Halton Arp\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ned.ipac.caltech.edu\/level5\/Arp\/Arp_contents.html\">Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies<\/a>, and they consist of a large <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barred_spiral_galaxy\">barred spiral galaxy<\/a> named NGC 169, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrobin.com\/wx798x\/\">140,000 light-years across<\/a>, and a much smaller <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polar-ring_galaxy\">polar-ring galaxy<\/a> named IC 1,559, which is about 40,000 light-years across.<\/p>\n<p>These two galaxies have drawn close enough together that they\u2019re exchanging material. That\u2019s not unusual: Although space is vast and mostly empty, galaxies are gravitationally drawn together, perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/galaxies-have-been-spotted-heading-for-collision-on-a-cosmic-matter-highway\">channeled along strands of the invisible cosmic web<\/a> that stretches across and plays a vital role in shaping the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing interaction between two galaxies 320 million light-years away has been captured in a gorgeous Hubble image. They\u2019re collectively known as Arp 282 in Halton Arp\u2019s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, and they consist of a large barred spiral galaxy named NGC 169, about 140,000 light-years across, and a much smaller polar-ring galaxy named IC [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136613","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}