{"id":345,"date":"2011-06-25T12:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-06-25T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T19:02:44","slug":"breathtaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/breathtaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathtaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/12036-strange-galaxy-cluster-collision-abell-2744.html\">This<\/a> is beautiful:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/12036-strange-galaxy-cluster-collision-abell-2744.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.space.com\/images\/i\/10327\/i02\/hubble-pandora_s-galaxy-cluster.jpg?1308604236\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, and it appears to be the collision of four separate clusters of galaxies. Clusters are the largest gravitationally-bound structures in the universe. That means that galaxies are bound by gravity into groups, and groups into clusters, but clusters aren&#8217;t bound do anything bigger than themselves. Our minds boggle at the size of our own stellar neighborhood, much less our galaxy, and beyond that it&#8217;s just zeroes. &#8220;Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=ps%20139:6,12&#038;version=CEB\">said the Psalmist<\/a>. &#8220;The night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is beautiful: It&#8217;s the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, and it appears to be the collision of four separate clusters of galaxies. Clusters are the largest gravitationally-bound structures in the universe. That means that galaxies are bound by gravity into groups, and groups into clusters, but clusters aren&#8217;t bound do anything bigger than themselves. Our &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/breathtaking\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[79,104,143,49,276,302],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-astronomy","tag-clusters","tag-galaxies","tag-science","tag-space","tag-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}