{"id":143846,"date":"2022-08-10T03:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T08:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/cosmic-butterfly-wings-shimmer-in-image-of-violently-colliding-galaxies"},"modified":"2022-08-10T03:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T08:25:57","slug":"cosmic-butterfly-wings-shimmer-in-image-of-violently-colliding-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/cosmic-butterfly-wings-shimmer-in-image-of-violently-colliding-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cosmic butterfly\u2019 wings shimmer in image of violently colliding galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmic-butterfly-wings-shimmer-in-image-of-violently-colliding-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two spiral galaxies are about 60 million light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Astronomers at the Gemini North telescope in Hawai\u2019i have released a stunning image that shows two spiral galaxies in the process of colliding and merging.<\/p>\n<p>The clashing galaxies NGC 4,568 and NGC 4,567 \u2014 also known as the Butterfly galaxies due to the dual-lobed shape their interaction causes \u2014 are located 60 million light-years away from Earth in the Virgo Cluster and will form a brand new elliptical galaxy in around 500 million years, according to a statement from NOIRLab, which operates the Gemini North telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two spiral galaxies are about 60 million light-years from Earth. Astronomers at the Gemini North telescope in Hawai\u2019i have released a stunning image that shows two spiral galaxies in the process of colliding and merging. The clashing galaxies NGC 4,568 and NGC 4,567 \u2014 also known as the Butterfly galaxies due to the dual-lobed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143846","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=143846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}