{"id":8323,"date":"2017-07-10T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:57:09","slug":"spiral-galaxy-ngc-1512-the-nuclear-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=8323","title":{"rendered":"Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: The Nuclear Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1707\/NGC1512_Schmidt_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What&#8217;s happening around the center of this spiral galaxy? Seen in total, NGC 1512 appears to be a barred spiral galaxy &#8212; a type of spiral that has a straight bar of stars across its center. This bar crosses an outer ring, though, a ring not seen as it surrounds the pictured region. Featured in this Hubble Space Telescope image is an inner ring &#8212; one that itself surrounds the nucleus of the spiral. The two rings are connected not only by a bar of bright stars but by dark lanes of dust. Inside of this inner ring, dust continues to spiral right into the very center &#8212; possibly the location of a large black hole. The rings are bright with newly formed stars which may have been triggered by the collision of NGC 1512 with its galactic neighbor, NGC 1510. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2tVECTF\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening around the center of this spiral galaxy? Seen in total, NGC 1512 appears to be a barred spiral galaxy &#8212; a type of spiral that has a straight <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=8323\" 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-8323","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\/8323","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=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8324,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions\/8324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}