{"id":24683,"date":"2022-01-14T05:56:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T05:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24683"},"modified":"2022-01-14T05:56:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T05:56:31","slug":"ngc-1566-the-spanish-dancer-spiral-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24683","title":{"rendered":"NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2201\/NGC1566LRGBHa-Hanson-SelbyFinal1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>An island universe of billions of stars, NGC 1566 lies about 60 million light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado. Popularly known as the Spanish Dancer galaxy, it&#8217;s seen face-on from our Milky Way perspective. A gorgeous grand design spiral, this galaxy&#8217;s two graceful spiral arms span over 100,000 light-years, traced by bright blue star clusters, pinkish starforming regions, and swirling cosmic dust lanes. NGC 1566&#8217;s flaring center makes the spiral one of the closest and brightest Seyfert galaxies. It likely houses a central supermassive black hole wreaking havoc on surrounding stars, gas, and dust. In this sharp southern galaxy portrait, the spiky stars lie well within the Milky Way. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220114.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An island universe of billions of stars, NGC 1566 lies about 60 million light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado. Popularly known as the Spanish Dancer galaxy, it&#8217;s seen face-on <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24683\" 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-24683","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\/24683","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=24683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24684,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions\/24684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}