{"id":733253,"date":"2010-05-25T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=16338"},"modified":"2010-05-25T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:13:32","slug":"munster-galaxy-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/733253","title":{"rendered":"Munster galaxy | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, that title is not a typo. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.gemini.edu\/node\/11470\">Here&#8217;s the galaxy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gemini.edu\/images\/pio\/20100422_ngc1313_legacy.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/05\/gemini_ngc1313.jpg?resize=610%2C392\" alt=\"gemini_ngc1313\" title=\"gemini_ngc1313\" width=\"610\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16339\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an irregular galaxy about 15 million light years away that&#8217;s undergoing a &#8220;starburst&#8221; &#8212; a massive wave of star formation. I won&#8217;t go into details like I usually do (the press release for the image is pretty good, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.gemini.edu\/node\/11470\">so go read that<\/a>)&#8230; but I just wanted to make the joke. <\/p>\n<p>The name of the galaxy? <strong>NGC 1313.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><em>Image credit: my buddy, Travis Rector of the University of Alaska, Anchorage<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Is6nJFglklx6zsRNNLsAmYn_9Vc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Is6nJFglklx6zsRNNLsAmYn_9Vc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Is6nJFglklx6zsRNNLsAmYn_9Vc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Is6nJFglklx6zsRNNLsAmYn_9Vc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/O-FLHQuWfFU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/zJJ53H3wbU8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, that title is not a typo. Here&#8217;s the galaxy: This is an irregular galaxy about 15 million light years away that&#8217;s undergoing a &#8220;starburst&#8221; &#8212; a massive wave of star formation. I won&#8217;t go into details like I usually do (the press release for the image is pretty good, so go read that)&#8230; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34KF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}