{"id":26801,"date":"2026-02-04T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26801"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:56:15","slug":"26801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26801","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2602\/NGC1512_stern_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Most galaxies don&#8217;t have any rings &#8212; why does this galaxy have three? To begin, a ring that&#8217;s near NGC 1512&#8217;s center &#8212; and so hard to see here &#8212; is the nuclear ring which glows brightly with recently formed stars. Next out is a ring of stars and dust appearing both red and blue, called, counter-intuitively, the inner ring. This inner ring connects ends of a diffuse central bar of stars that runs horizontally across the galaxy. Farthest out in this wide field image is a ragged structure that might be considered an outer ring. This outer ring appears spiral-like and is dotted with clusters of bright blue stars. All these ring structures are thought to be affected by NGC 1512&#8217;s own gravitational asymmetries in a drawn-out process called secularevolution. The featured image was captured last month from a telescope at Deep Sky Chile in Chile. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap260204.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most galaxies don&#8217;t have any rings &#8212; why does this galaxy have three? To begin, a ring that&#8217;s near NGC 1512&#8217;s center &#8212; and so hard to see here &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26801\" 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-26801","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\/26801","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=26801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26802,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26801\/revisions\/26802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}