{"id":77368,"date":"2018-04-03T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-close-galactic-pair"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:04:26","slug":"a-close-galactic-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-close-galactic-pair","title":{"rendered":"A close galactic pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-close-galactic-pair.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This image displays the galaxies NGC 4302 \u2014 seen edge-on \u2014 and NGC 4298, both located 55 million light-years away. They were observed by Hubble to celebrate its 27th year in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The galaxy NGC 4298 is seen almost face-on, allowing us to see its spiral arms and the blue patches of ongoing star formation and young stars. In the edge-on disc of NGC 4302 huge swathes of dust are responsible for the mottled brown patterns, but a burst of blue to the left side of the galaxy indicates a region of extremely vigorous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_formation\">star formation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The image is a mosaic of four separate captures from Hubble, taken between 2 and 22 January 2017, that have been stitched together to give this amazing field of view. Two different types of light emitted by the galaxies \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Light\">visible<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infrared\">near-infrared<\/a> \u2014 have been combined to give a rich and colourful image. This light was captured by Hubble\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/spacetelescope.org\/about\/general\/instruments\/wfc3\/\">Wide Field Camera 3<\/a>, one of the telescope\u2019s most advanced imaging instruments.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spacetelescope.org\/images\/heic1709a\/\">http:\/\/spacetelescope.org\/images\/heic1709a\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image displays the galaxies NGC 4302 \u2014 seen edge-on \u2014 and NGC 4298, both located 55 million light-years away. They were observed by Hubble to celebrate its 27th year in orbit. The galaxy NGC 4298 is seen almost face-on, allowing us to see its spiral arms and the blue patches of ongoing star formation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77368","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77374,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77368\/revisions\/77374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}