{"id":24853,"date":"2022-04-14T04:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T04:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24853"},"modified":"2022-04-14T04:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T04:56:36","slug":"messier-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24853","title":{"rendered":"Messier 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2204\/M_96_LRGB_CDK_1000_8April2022HansonSelbyFinal1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Spiral arms seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of a beautiful island universe. Of course M96 is a spiral galaxy, and counting the faint arms extending beyond the brighter central region it spans 100 thousand light-years or so. That&#8217;s about the size of our own Milky Way. M96 is known to be 38 million light-years distant, a dominant member of the Leo I galaxy group. Background galaxies and smaller Leo I group members can be found by examining the picture. The most intriguing one is itself a spiral galaxy seen nearly edge on behind the outer spiral arm near the 1 o&#8217;clock position from center. Its bright central bulge cut by its own dark dust clouds, the edge-on background spiral appears to be about 1\/5 the size of M96. If that background galaxy is similar in actual size to M96, then it would be about 5 times farther away. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220414.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiral arms seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of a beautiful island universe. Of course M96 is a spiral galaxy, and counting <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24853\" 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-24853","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\/24853","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=24853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24854,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions\/24854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}