{"id":153935,"date":"2022-12-30T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/hubble-spots-a-peculiar-galaxy-with-long-twisting-space-tentacles"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:22:40","slug":"hubble-spots-a-peculiar-galaxy-with-long-twisting-space-tentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/hubble-spots-a-peculiar-galaxy-with-long-twisting-space-tentacles","title":{"rendered":"Hubble spots a peculiar galaxy with long, twisting space tentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-spots-a-peculiar-galaxy-with-long-twisting-space-tentacles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At some point in its history, ESO 415\u201319 had a close encounter with another galaxy, and it\u2019s never been the same since. The gravity from that passing galaxy drew parts of ESO 415\u201319 outward into long, curving streams of stars and dust \u2014 and then the other galaxy moved on, leaving ESO 415\u201319 with its arms still stretching out into space.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers call these bizarrely long arms tidal streams, and they\u2019re what earned ESO 415\u201319 its coveted place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/hubble-speace-telescope-wild-triplet-peculiar-galaxies\/amp\">Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies<\/a>, a catalog of 338 of the weirdest galaxies in the known universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in its history, ESO 415\u201319 had a close encounter with another galaxy, and it\u2019s never been the same since. The gravity from that passing galaxy drew parts of ESO 415\u201319 outward into long, curving streams of stars and dust \u2014 and then the other galaxy moved on, leaving ESO 415\u201319 with its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153935","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}