{"id":14164,"date":"2014-08-27T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14164"},"modified":"2014-08-26T19:19:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:19:35","slug":"merging-galaxies-in-the-distant-universe-through-a-gravitational-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14164","title":{"rendered":"Merging Galaxies in the Distant Universe Through a Gravitational Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/images\/heic1417a\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESA\/Hubble press release<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_14165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14165\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/H-ATLASJ142935.3-002836.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/H-ATLASJ142935.3-002836-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/H-ATLASJ142935.3-002836-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/H-ATLASJ142935.3-002836-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/H-ATLASJ142935.3-002836.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galaxy H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836 seen in a composite of Hubble and Keck 2 data, credit NASA\/ESA\/ESO\/W. M. Keck Observatory<\/figcaption><\/figure>The NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and many other telescopes on the ground and in space have been used to obtain the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age. The astronomers enlisted the help of a galaxy-sized magnifying glass to reveal otherwise invisible detail.<\/p>\n<p>These new studies of the galaxy have shown that this complex and distant object looks surprisingly like the well-known local galaxy collision, the Antennae Galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>In this picture, which combines views from Hubble and the Keck-II telescope on Hawaii (using adaptive optics), you can see a foreground galaxy that is acting as the gravitational lens. The galaxy resembles how our home galaxy, the Milky Way, would appear if seen edge-on. But around this galaxy there is an almost complete ring \u2014 the smeared out image of a star-forming galaxy merger far beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\/Hubble press release&#8230; The NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and many other telescopes on the ground and in space have been used to obtain the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age. The astronomers enlisted the help of a galaxy-sized magnifying glass &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merging Galaxies in the Distant Universe Through a Gravitational Lens&#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":[9],"tags":[141,1487,50,1875,1876],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164"}],"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=14164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14168,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions\/14168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}