{"id":7054,"date":"2013-05-01T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2024-07-04T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T01:14:56","slug":"colossal-hot-cloud-envelopes-colliding-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7054","title":{"rendered":"Colossal Hot Cloud Envelopes Colliding Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/HotGas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7055\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/HotGas-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Gas\" width=\"727\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/HotGas-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/HotGas.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAn enormous cloud of hot gas is surrounding two merging spiral galaxies.<br \/>\nThis gas reservoir contains the mass of 10 billion Suns, spans 300,000 light years, and radiates at more 7 million degrees.<\/p>\n<p>X-rays from Chandra (purple) have been combined with optical data from Hubble to make this composite image.<\/p>\n<p>A burst of star formation that lasted for at least 200 million years may be responsible for this extra large cloud of hot gas.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2013\/ngc6240\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> http:\/\/www.chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2013\/ngc6240\/<\/a><br \/>\nAnd you thought waking up to a hangover was bad!<br \/>\nImagine being at the \u201cmerge point\u201d of two galaxies!<br \/>\nExciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enormous cloud of hot gas is surrounding two merging spiral galaxies. This gas reservoir contains the mass of 10 billion Suns, spans 300,000 light years, and radiates at more 7 million degrees. X-rays from Chandra (purple) have been combined with optical data from Hubble to make this composite image. A burst of star formation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colossal Hot Cloud Envelopes Colliding Galaxies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53961,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions\/53961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}