{"id":734,"date":"2023-10-13T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2023-10-13T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:57:31","slug":"m101-the-pinwheel-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/m101-the-pinwheel-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"M101 &ndash; The Pinwheel Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n</p><p>This is my best view yet of the massive, face-on spiral galaxy M101. This galaxy is massive. Measuring 170,000 lightyears in diameter, it is nearly twice the size of our own Milky Way. Earlier this year I spent weeks collecting this two panel mosaic of it using my largest telescope, and it happened to coincide with the emergence of a new supernova within it that can be seen here and in an earlier post that I made with a smaller crop of this data.\n\n\n\n</p><p>I find it hard to get my mind around the scope of this magnificent monster. What do you think?<br>\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image' size-large><img decoding='\"async\"' loading='\"lazy\"' width='\"823\"' height='\"1024\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/legendhorizon.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/10%5C/IMG_1502-823x1024.jpeg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-735\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1502-823x1024.jpeg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>This is my best view yet of the massive, face-on spiral galaxy M101. This galaxy is massive. Measuring 170,000 lightyears in diameter, it is nearly <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/legendhorizon.com%5C/m101-the-pinwheel-galaxy%5C/%5C%22" title='\"M101' the pinwheel galaxy>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendhorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></figure></p>