{"id":38166,"date":"2011-08-14T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/bang-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:18","slug":"bang-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/bang-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Bang! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>450 million light years away are two interacting galaxies. Both spirals, they are caught in each other&rsquo;s gravitational claws. Already distorted and bound, eventually, to merge into one larger galaxy in a few million years, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2011\/vv340\/\">the view we have of them from Earth<\/a> is both amazing and lovely&hellip; and hey: they&rsquo;re punctuating their own predicament! <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2011\/vv340\/vv340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/81e87_chandra_arp302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"573\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35742\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>[Click to exclamatenate.]<\/p><p>Looking a lot like an exclamation point, the two galaxies together are called Arp 302 (or VV 340). This image is a combination of pictures from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (purple) and Hubble (red, green, and blue). The bottom galaxy is a face-on spiral, while the upper one is seen more edge-on, giving the pair their typographical appearance. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2011\/vv340\/vv340_spitzer_galex.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/81e87_galex_spitzer_arp302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"319\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35743\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>They&rsquo;re pretty nifty even if it weren&rsquo;t for the funny coincidence of shape. The upper galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core that&rsquo;s actively feeding, but is obscured by thick layers of dust &mdash; the abundance of dust is clear in the upper picture, where in optical light it blocks the brighter material behind it (and the warped appearance ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/flZoqNcR63B1zg-Yk8jKB7I70UU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/81e87_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/flZoqNcR63B1zg-Yk8jKB7I70UU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/81e87_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\/81e87_KVLq7_2GPw0\" 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\/81e87_v99w3Hk0GR8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>450 million light years away are two interacting galaxies. Both spirals, they are caught in each other&rsquo;s gravitational claws. Already distorted and bound, eventually, to merge into one larger galaxy in a few million years, the view we have of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/bang-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-38166","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\/38166"}],"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=38166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}