{"id":228081,"date":"2025-12-30T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nasas-chandra-rings-in-the-new-year-with-the-champagne-cluster"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:18:03","slug":"nasas-chandra-rings-in-the-new-year-with-the-champagne-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/nasas-chandra-rings-in-the-new-year-with-the-champagne-cluster","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Chandra rings in the new year with the Champagne Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-chandra-rings-in-the-new-year-with-the-champagne-cluster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the New Year with the \u201cChampagne Cluster,\u201d a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster on Dec. 31, 2020. The date, combined with the bubble-like appearance of the galaxies and the superheated gas seen with Chandra observations (represented in purple), inspired the scientists to nickname the galaxy cluster the Champagne Cluster, a much easier-to-remember name than its official designation of RM J130558.9+263048.4.<\/p>\n<p>The new composite image shows that the Champagne Cluster is actually two galaxy clusters in the process of merging to form an even larger cluster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate the New Year with the \u201cChampagne Cluster,\u201d a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster on Dec. 31, 2020. The date, combined with the bubble-like appearance of the galaxies and the superheated gas seen with Chandra observations (represented in purple), inspired [\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-228081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228081","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=228081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}