{"id":140497,"date":"2022-06-12T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/weird-object-hoags-object"},"modified":"2022-06-12T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:33:45","slug":"weird-object-hoags-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/weird-object-hoags-object","title":{"rendered":"Weird Object: Hoag\u2019s Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weird-object-hoags-object2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hoag\u2019s Object is a galaxy with an central region and a bright outer ring, but lacks any intervening material.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>No. 7: With This Ring, I Thee Puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>In 1950, astronomer Arthur Hoag came upon a tiny, faint, 16th-magnitude ring surrounding a ball-like center, and reasonably assumed it was a planetary nebula \u2014 a nearby puff of gas expelled from a single old-aged star. He also proposed an alternative and far more exotic explanation that this was an \u201cEinstein Ring\u201d from a faraway quasar. In this scenario, the quasar\u2019s light is distorted into a halo by space-warping caused by a massive foreground spherical galaxy that it seems to surround. But later spectroscopic studies rejected this because the golden central ball and the blue ring have exactly the same redshift, indicating a whopping rush-away speed of 7,916 miles (12,740 kilometers) per second, which proves they\u2019re both located exactly the same distance from us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoag\u2019s Object is a galaxy with an central region and a bright outer ring, but lacks any intervening material. No. 7: With This Ring, I Thee Puzzle. In 1950, astronomer Arthur Hoag came upon a tiny, faint, 16th-magnitude ring surrounding a ball-like center, and reasonably assumed it was a planetary nebula \u2014 a nearby puff [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140497","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}