{"id":190,"date":"2013-01-11T06:44:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T06:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-01-11T06:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T06:44:27","slug":"largest-known-spiral-galaxy-5-times-as-big-as-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/largest-known-spiral-galaxy-5-times-as-big-as-milky-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy 5 times as big as Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest known spiral, based on archival data from NASA&#8217;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission, which has since been loaned to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring tip-to-tip across its two outsized spiral arms, NGC 6872 spans more than 522,000 light-years, making it more than five times the size of our Milky Way galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?release=2013-016&amp;cid=release_2013-016\">NASA&#8217;s Galex Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy &#8211; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest known spiral, based on archival data from &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/largest-known-spiral-galaxy-5-times-as-big-as-milky-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}