{"id":199995,"date":"2024-11-23T03:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/2-million-mph-galaxy-smash-up-seen-in-unprecedented-detail"},"modified":"2024-11-23T03:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T09:29:45","slug":"2-million-mph-galaxy-smash-up-seen-in-unprecedented-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/2-million-mph-galaxy-smash-up-seen-in-unprecedented-detail","title":{"rendered":"2 Million Mph Galaxy Smash-Up Seen in Unprecedented Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2-million-mph-galaxy-smash-up-seen-in-unprecedented-detail2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km\/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by one of Earth\u2019s most powerful telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic impact was observed in Stephan\u2019s Quintet, a nearby galaxy group made up of five galaxies first sighted almost 150 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It sparked an immensely powerful shock akin to a \u201csonic boom from a jet fighter\u201d\u2014the likes of which are among the most striking phenomena in the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km\/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by one of Earth\u2019s most powerful telescopes. The dramatic impact was observed in Stephan\u2019s Quintet, a nearby galaxy group made up of five galaxies first sighted almost 150 years ago. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199995","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}