{"id":36356,"date":"2020-07-20T01:09:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36356"},"modified":"2020-07-20T01:09:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T01:09:17","slug":"the-comet-and-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/the-comet-and-the-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"The comet and the galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday night I imaged the comet again, this time round acquiring a deeper exposure. While I was happy with the synchronous banding showing quite clearly in the dust tail, I was even happier to realise that I had also bagged a spiral galaxy: NGC 2841!\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Known as &#8216;Tiger\u2019s eye\u2019, you can see it feebly shining from behind the dust tail. It might look tiny in this photograph, but keep in mind that\u2019s an entire galaxy comprising billions of stars, lying some 46 million light years away. If you want to see it up close, here\u2019s Hubble\u2019s image of it:\u00a0<br \/>https:\/\/hubblesite.org\/image\/3845\/printshop<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/comet_neowise_galaxy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/comet_neowise_galaxy.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/comet_neowise_galaxy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/comet_neowise_galaxy-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/comet_neowise_galaxy-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/comet_neowise_galaxy-2048x1368.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday night I imaged the comet again, this time round acquiring a deeper exposure. While I was happy with the synchronous banding showing quite clearly in the dust tail, I was even happier to realise that I had also bagged a spiral galaxy: NGC 2841!\u00a0 \u00a0 Known as &#8216;Tiger\u2019s eye\u2019, you can see it feebly shining from behind the dust tail. It might look tiny in this photograph, but keep in mind that\u2019s an entire galaxy comprising billions of stars, lying some 46 million light years away. If you want to<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/the-comet-and-the-galaxy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36359,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36356\/revisions\/36359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}