{"id":623,"date":"2025-12-30T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/a-galactic-embrace\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:10:55","slug":"a-galactic-embrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/a-galactic-embrace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Galactic Embrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54957843876-a1382275cd-o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54957843876-a1382275cd-o.jpg?w=864\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A pair of colliding spiral galaxies. Here, both spirals are shown face on, with the smaller of the two galaxies, IC 2163, at the upper left of the larger galaxy, NGC 2207, which dominates the center and lower right of the image. Both galaxies have long, spiraling, silver blue arms, dotted with specs of blue and red. Toward our upper left, the curving arms overlap, and bend toward their neighbors' core. James Webb mid-infrared image (white, gray, and red) and adds the X-ray view from Chandra (blue).\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Infrared: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI\/Webb; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/L. Frattare<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mid-infrared data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) come together in this photo of colliding spiral galaxies released on Dec. 1, 2025. The pair grazed one another millions of years ago; billions of years in the future, they will merge into a single galaxy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a-galactic-embrace-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-806\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p><em>Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Infrared: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI\/Webb; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/L. Frattare<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Infrared: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI\/Webb; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/L. Frattare Mid-infrared data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) come together in this photo of colliding spiral galaxies released on Dec. 1, 2025. The pair grazed one another millions of years ago; billions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}