{"id":9499,"date":"2017-08-17T04:56:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=9499"},"modified":"2017-08-17T04:56:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:56:58","slug":"ngc-2442-galaxy-in-volans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=9499","title":{"rendered":"NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1708\/NGC2442-HST-ESO-L1024c.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans. Located about 50 million light-years away, the galaxy&#8217;s two spiral arms extending from a pronounced central bar have a hook-like appearance in wide-field images. But this mosaicked close-up, constructed from Hubble Space Telescope and European Southern Observatory data, follows the galaxy&#8217;s structure in amazing detail. Obscuring dust lanes, young blue star clusters and reddish star forming regions surround a core of yellowish light from an older population of stars. The sharp image data also reveal more distant background galaxies seen right through NGC 2442&#8217;s star clusters and nebulae. The image spans about 75,000 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 2442. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2i4R92x\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans. Located about 50 million light-years away, the galaxy&#8217;s two spiral arms extending from <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=9499\" 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-9499","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\/9499","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=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}