{"id":12768,"date":"2014-04-03T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12768"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:53:02","slug":"postcard-from-the-universe-markarians-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12768","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Universe &#8211; Markarian&#8217;s Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The center of Virgo is thick with galaxies.  The nearest large super-cluster of galaxies lies a mere 53 million lightyears away, includes upwards of 1300 member galaxies and spans over 8&deg; on the sky.  The center of the Virgo Cluster is marked by the large elliptical galaxies M84, M86 and M87.<\/p>\n<p>Markarian&#8217;s Chain is the long sweep of galaxies stretching from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?M84\">M84<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?M86\">M86<\/a> pair at the lower right to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?NGC4477\">NGC4477<\/a> at the upper left.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12771\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=12771\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12771\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MarkarianChain20140223-600x900.jpg\" alt=\"Markarian&#039;s Chain\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MarkarianChain20140223-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MarkarianChain20140223.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The galaxies of the Virgo Cluster, including M84, M86 and M87, Canon 6D and TV-76mm, 10x240s+10x60s+10x15s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The center of Virgo is thick with galaxies. The nearest large super-cluster of galaxies lies a mere 53 million lightyears away, includes upwards of 1300 member galaxies and spans over 8&deg; on the sky. The center of the Virgo Cluster is marked by the large elliptical galaxies M84, M86 and M87. Markarian&#8217;s Chain is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Universe &#8211; Markarian&#8217;s Chain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[260],"tags":[279,1630,141,1629,1631,1632],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}