{"id":3922162,"date":"2025-09-29T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hubble-captures-puzzling-galaxy-with-gas-free-center-and-dusty-ring\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:04:08","slug":"hubble-captures-puzzling-galaxy-with-gas-free-center-and-dusty-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hubble-captures-puzzling-galaxy-with-gas-free-center-and-dusty-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble captures puzzling galaxy with gas-free center and dusty ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that&#8217;s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless center that is devoid of gas, resembling an elliptical galaxy. It also has a dusty ring with patchy star clusters, like a spiral galaxy. Which is it: spiral or elliptical\u2014or neither?<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-hubble-captures-puzzling-galaxy-gas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that&#8217;s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless center that is devoid of gas, resembling an elliptical galaxy. It also has a dusty ring with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}