{"id":1393,"date":"2015-10-16T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T08:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1393-large-magellanic-cloud.html"},"modified":"2015-10-16T19:51:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T09:21:40","slug":"large-magellanic-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1393-large-magellanic-cloud.html","title":{"rendered":"Large Magellanic Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:1943 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1224-final.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt around 163,000 light year away it is humbling to realise we are looking up at a large object in the night sky as it existed not long after the dawn of the human species.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne extraordinary feature of the LMC is the bright blue purple star-like object just below the middle of the frame. It&#8217;s not a star at all but one of the most amazing nebulae in our local group, the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus).<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Tarantula Nebula is the most cosmologically active starburst object in all the galaxies of our local group giving birth to brand new stars at a greater rate than any other known nebula.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Large Magellanic Cloud&#8217;, 24x120s f\/4 ISO1600 130mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy. At around 163,000 light year away it is humbling &#8230; <a title=\"Large Magellanic Cloud\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1393-large-magellanic-cloud.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Large Magellanic Cloud\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}