{"id":89094,"date":"2019-03-31T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/nasa-released-a-stunning-photo-showing-two-galaxies-colliding"},"modified":"2019-03-31T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T14:22:26","slug":"nasa-released-a-stunning-photo-showing-two-galaxies-colliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/nasa-released-a-stunning-photo-showing-two-galaxies-colliding","title":{"rendered":"NASA released a stunning photo showing two galaxies colliding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-released-a-stunning-photo-showing-two-galaxies-colliding2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The galaxies have never before been captured in such detail.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>First discovered in 1784 by William Herschel, NGC 6052 was originally thought to be a singular galaxy that simply had an odd shape.<\/p>\n<p>However, scientists eventually figured out that the \u201coddly shaped galaxy\u201d 230 million light-years away was, in fact, two galaxies in the process of colliding.<\/p>\n<p>Having previously been observed by the Hubble telescope with an older camera in 2015, NASA recently released a stunning image of the galaxies in even better detail.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/buff.ly\/2FDO5Tn\">https:\/\/buff.ly\/2FDO5Tn<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The galaxies have never before been captured in such detail. First discovered in 1784 by William Herschel, NGC 6052 was originally thought to be a singular galaxy that simply had an odd shape. However, scientists eventually figured out that the \u201coddly shaped galaxy\u201d 230 million light-years away was, in fact, two galaxies in the process [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89094","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}