{"id":2015,"date":"2012-12-09T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:33:30","slug":"a-prize-winning-galaxy-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/a-prize-winning-galaxy-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"A prize-winning galaxy photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/09\/pictures\/120925-best-space-2012-astronomy-photographer-milky-way-science\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2016\" title=\"Whirlpool_galaxy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/12\/Whirlpool_galaxy-300x274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/12\/Whirlpool_galaxy-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/12\/Whirlpool_galaxy-328x300.png 328w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/12\/Whirlpool_galaxy.png 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Are you wondering what it is in this image? It is \u201ca spiral arm of the Whirlpool Galaxy grazes the light of a smaller companion galaxy that&#8217;s slowly being torn apart by its neighbor&#8217;s gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This photo won Australia&#8217;s Martin Pugh top prize in the 2012 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition run by the U.K.&#8217;s Royal Observatory Greenwich. Also wonder what the blue, pink, and reddish things are in the big arm? Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/09\/pictures\/120925-best-space-2012-astronomy-photographer-milky-way-science\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you wondering what it is in this image? It is \u201ca spiral arm of the Whirlpool Galaxy grazes the light of a smaller companion galaxy that&#8217;s slowly being torn apart by its neighbor&#8217;s gravity.\u201d This photo won Australia&#8217;s Martin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/a-prize-winning-galaxy-photo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,161],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-galaxy","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}