{"id":1148,"date":"2019-06-05T10:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2020-10-31T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T16:18:07","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-ngc-6902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday: NGC 6902"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potw1908a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potw1908a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potw1908a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potw1908a-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potw1908a-1022x1024.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potw1908a.jpg 1835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>The spiral galaxy NGC 6902 was discovered in 1836 by John Herschel.<br><em>ESO \/ SPECULOOS Team \/ E. Jehin<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/paranal-observatory\/speculoos\/\">SPECULOOS Southern Observatory<\/a> saw first light in December 2017. Located at ESO&#8217;s Paranal Observatory in Chile, SPECULOOS is designed to hunt for exoplanets around small, cool stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This image of NGC 6902, a galaxy about 120 million light-years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius, was taken to test one of the four 1-meter telescopes that comprise SPECULOOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/potw1908a\/\">the ESO site<\/a> to download high-res versions of this image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SPECULOOS Southern Observatory saw first light in December 2017. Located at ESO&#8217;s Paranal Observatory in Chile, SPECULOOS is designed to hunt for exoplanets around small, cool stars. This image of NGC 6902, a galaxy about 120 million light-years from Earth in the direction of Sagittarius, was taken to test one of the four 1-meter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eso","category-instruments","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}