{"id":3926864,"date":"2026-07-07T19:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/galaxy-mergers-arent-always-obvious\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:02:34","slug":"galaxy-mergers-arent-always-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/galaxy-mergers-arent-always-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy mergers aren&#8217;t always obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The galaxy Centaurus A is about 11 million light-years away and is the fifth-brightest galaxy in the sky. Because it&#8217;s so bright, it&#8217;s been studied extensively by amateur and professional astronomers alike. Also called NGC 5128, it&#8217;s a starburst galaxy, meaning it&#8217;s forming stars at a rapid rate.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-galaxy-mergers-obvious.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The galaxy Centaurus A is about 11 million light-years away and is the fifth-brightest galaxy in the sky. Because it&#8217;s so bright, it&#8217;s been studied extensively by amateur and professional astronomers alike. Also called NGC 5128, it&#8217;s a starburst galaxy, meaning it&#8217;s forming stars at a rapid rate. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/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-3926864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}