{"id":19146,"date":"2010-05-27T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T08:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/munster-galaxy-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T08:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T08:10:57","slug":"munster-galaxy-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/munster-galaxy-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Munster galaxy | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, that title is not a typo. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gemini.edu\/node\/11470\">Here&rsquo;s the galaxy<\/a>:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gemini.edu\/images\/pio\/20100422_ngc1313_legacy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/949cc_gemini_ngc1313.jpg\" alt=\"gemini_ngc1313\" width=\"610\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16339\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>This is an irregular galaxy about 15 million light years away that&rsquo;s undergoing a \"starburst\" &mdash; a massive wave of star formation. I won&rsquo;t go into details like I usually do (the press release for the image is pretty good, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gemini.edu\/node\/11470\">so go read that<\/a>)&hellip; but I just wanted to make the joke. <\/p><p>The name of the galaxy? <strong>NGC 1313.<\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><p><em>Image credit: my buddy, Travis Rector of the University of Alaska, Anchorage<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Is6nJFglklx6zsRNNLsAmYn_9Vc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/949cc_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Is6nJFglklx6zsRNNLsAmYn_9Vc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/949cc_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/949cc_O-FLHQuWfFU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/949cc_zJJ53H3wbU8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, that title is not a typo. Here&rsquo;s the galaxy:This is an irregular galaxy about 15 million light years away that&rsquo;s undergoing a \"starburst\" &mdash; a massive wave of star formation. I won&rsquo;t go into details like I usually do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/munster-galaxy-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}