{"id":36304,"date":"2011-06-19T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hubble%e2%80%99s-look-at-centaurus-a\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:46:51","slug":"hubble%e2%80%99s-look-at-centaurus-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hubble%e2%80%99s-look-at-centaurus-a.php","title":{"rendered":"Hubble\u2019s Look at Centaurus A"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bfe99_hubble061711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bfe99_hubble061711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"450\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Centaurus A from Hubble.   Click for larger and see Hubblesite for more versions. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI\/AURA)-ESA\/Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee <\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Nice!<\/p><p>When you visit Hubblesite (linked below) you may note under the &ldquo;Fast Facts&rdquo; tab they have the distance stated as 11 million light-years (3.4 parsecs);&nbsp; they just forgot the &ldquo;million&rdquo; in the parsecs so it should be 3.4 million parsecs.  Been there done that.<\/p><p>From <a title=\"Visit Hubblesite\" href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2011\/18\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hubblesite<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>JUNE 16, 2011: Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble&rsquo;s panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters and a glimpse into regions normally obscured by the dust. This image was taken in July 2010 with Hubble&rsquo;s Wide Field Camera 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centaurus A from Hubble. Click for larger and see Hubblesite for more versions. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI\/AURA)-ESA\/Hubble Collaboration Acknowledgment: R. O'Connell (University of Virginia) and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee &nbsp;Nice!When you visit Hubblesite (linked below) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hubble%e2%80%99s-look-at-centaurus-a.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-36304","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\/36304"}],"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=36304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}