{"id":1297,"date":"2024-04-27T20:45:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T02:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=1297"},"modified":"2024-04-27T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T02:55:26","slug":"featured-image-leos-triplet","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/blog-post\/featured-image-leos-triplet\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Image &#8211; Leo\u2019s Triplet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Leo Triplet<\/strong>\u00a0(also known as the\u00a0<strong>M66 Group<\/strong>) is a small\u00a0group of galaxies about\u00a035 million light-years away in the\u00a0constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the\u00a0spiral galaxies\u00a0M65, M66, and <strong>NGC 3628<\/strong>. NGC 3628, also known as\u00a0<strong>the Hamburger Galaxy<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong>Sarah&#8217;s Galaxy<\/strong>, is an\u00a0unbarred spiral galaxy about 35\u00a0million\u00a0light-years away from earth in the\u00a0constellation Leo. It was discovered by\u00a0William Herschel\u00a0in 1784. It has an approximately 300,000 light-years long\u00a0tidal tail. Its most conspicuous feature is the broad and obscuring band of dust located along the outer edge of its spiral arms, effectively transecting the galaxy to the view from Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name &#8220;Hamburger Galaxy&#8221; is a reference to its shape resembling a\u00a0hamburger, while the name &#8220;Sarah&#8217;s Galaxy&#8221; is thought to refer to poet\u00a0Sarah Williams (1837\u20131868),\u00a0most famous for the poem &#8220;The Old Astronomer:&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;<br>I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ngc3628-leos-tripletcr-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"NGC3628-Leo's Triplet Galaxies\" class=\"wp-image-1276 pp_post_image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ngc3628-leos-tripletcr-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ngc3628-leos-tripletcr-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ngc3628-leos-tripletcr-432x768.jpg 432w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ngc3628-leos-tripletcr-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ngc3628-leos-tripletcr.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NGC3628-Leo&#8217;s Triplet Galaxies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Leo Triplet\u00a0(also known as the\u00a0M66 Group) is a small\u00a0group of galaxies about\u00a035 million light-years away in the\u00a0constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/blog-post\/featured-image-leos-triplet\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"tags":[],"blog-category":[],"class_list":["post-1297","blog_post","type-blog_post","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albersheim.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}