{"id":26779,"date":"2026-01-21T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26779"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:56:04","slug":"barred-spiral-galaxy-ngc-1365-from-webb-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26779","title":{"rendered":"Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2601\/JWSTMIRI_ngc1365_1024.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter. That&#8217;s twice the size of our own barred spiral Milky Way. This sharp image from the James Webb Space Telescope&#8217;s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals stunning details of this magnificent spiral in infrared light. Webb&#8217;s field of view stretches about 60,000 light-years across NGC 1365, exploring the galaxy&#8217;s core and bright newborn star clusters. The intricate network of dusty filaments and bubbles is created by young stars along spiral arms winding from the galaxy&#8217;s central bar. Astronomers suspect the gravitational field of NGC 1365&#8217;s bar plays a crucial role in the galaxy&#8217;s evolution, funneling gas and dust into a star-forming maelstrom and ultimately feeding material into the active galaxy&#8217;s central, supermassive black hole. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap260121.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter. That&#8217;s twice the size of our <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26779\" 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-26779","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\/26779","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=26779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26780,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions\/26780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}