{"id":318873,"date":"2025-11-19T03:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=a0601f3477cfd56f63a92b7eec84f63f"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:45:46","slug":"nasa-telescopes-view-spiral-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=318873","title":{"rendered":"NASA Telescopes View Spiral Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/11\/54735864299-978db6da0f-o.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54735864299-978db6da0f-o.jpg?w=864\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A gold and blue spiral galaxy swirls in the darkness of space. There is a bright spot of light at its center.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54735864299-978db6da0f-o.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54735864299-978db6da0f-o.jpg?resize=266,300 266w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54735864299-978db6da0f-o.jpg?resize=768,866 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54735864299-978db6da0f-o.jpg?resize=355,400 355w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54735864299-978db6da0f-o.jpg?resize=532,600 532w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54735864299-978db6da0f-o.jpg?resize=798,900 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Optical\/IR: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI (HST and JWST); Radio: NSF\/NRAO\/VLA; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/J. Schmidt and N. Wolk<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this <a href=\"https:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2025\/cosmic\/\" rel=\"noopener\">image<\/a> released on July 23, 2025. The galaxy contains a black hole at its center that is twice as massive as the Milky Way\u2019s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/chandra-x-ray-observatory\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/chandra-x-ray-observatory\/\">NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> data shows a million-mile-per-hour wind is being driven from NGC 1068\u2019s black hole and lighting up the center of the galaxy in X-rays.<\/p>\n<p>The image contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), radio data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/science-matters\/vla-turning-40\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. National Science Foundation\u2019s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array<\/a> (pink), and optical data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (yellow, grey and gold).<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Optical\/IR: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI (HST and JWST); Radio: NSF\/NRAO\/VLA; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/J. Schmidt and N. Wolk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGC 1068, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy, appears in this image released on July 23, 2025. The galaxy contains a black hole at its center that is twice as massive as the Milky Way\u2019s. NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory data shows a million-mile-per-hour wind is being driven from NGC 1068\u2019s black hole and lighting up the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319175,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318873\/revisions\/319175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}