{"id":96560,"date":"2019-09-22T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/feast-your-eyes-on-this-dead-nearby-galaxy-thanks-to-hubble"},"modified":"2019-09-22T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T01:22:28","slug":"feast-your-eyes-on-this-dead-nearby-galaxy-thanks-to-hubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/feast-your-eyes-on-this-dead-nearby-galaxy-thanks-to-hubble","title":{"rendered":"Feast your eyes on this \u2018dead\u2019 nearby galaxy, thanks to Hubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/feast-your-eyes-on-this-dead-nearby-galaxy-thanks-to-hubble2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, and the galaxies most pleasing to the eye are always in the most recognizable shapes. Dramatic spirals with outstretched arms, bursting with newborn stars are always a jaw-dropping sight, after all. Messier 110 is most definitely not in that group.<\/p>\n<p>Messier 110 is what is known as an elliptical galaxy. It doesn\u2019t have well-formed features, and it\u2019s not a swirling mass of eye candy. It\u2019s just a big blob of stars hanging out around the nearby Andromeda galaxy. As far as galaxies go, it\u2019s rather small, but NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope has a certain knack for making even \u201csmall\u201d destinations in space look larger than life.<\/p>\n<p>As NASA explains, this photo of Messier 110 reveals the galaxy\u2019s true personality. It\u2019s not particularly flashy or fun, but it is absolutely packed with stars, and while there are no obvious star nurseries to be seen, scientists think new stars are still being born here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, and the galaxies most pleasing to the eye are always in the most recognizable shapes. Dramatic spirals with outstretched arms, bursting with newborn stars are always a jaw-dropping sight, after all. Messier 110 is most definitely not in that group. Messier 110 is what is known as an [\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-96560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96560","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=96560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}