{"id":12781,"date":"2017-11-30T05:56:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12781"},"modified":"2017-11-30T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T05:56:17","slug":"m33-triangulum-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12781","title":{"rendered":"M33: Triangulum Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1711\/M33Nagy_1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other&#8217;s grand spiral star systems. As for the view from planet Earth, this sharp composite image nicely shows off M33&#8217;s blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along the galaxy&#8217;s loosely wound spiral arms. In fact, the cavernous NGC 604 is the brightest star forming region, seen here at about the 7 o&#8217;clock position from the galaxy center. Like M31, M33&#8217;s population of well-measured variable stars have helped make this nearby spiral a cosmic yardstick for establishing the distance scale of the Universe. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2zzRm20\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12781\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-12781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12782,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12781\/revisions\/12782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}