{"id":881,"date":"2020-11-17T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2020-11-17T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:43:43","slug":"triangulum-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/2020\/11\/17\/triangulum-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangulum Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image by Elizabeth Warrick, BMC &#8217;21 is her second attempt at imaging the Triangulum galaxy, the first one foiled by pointing issues. I&#8217;d\u00a0 like to applaud Elizabeth for her persistence in getting this tricky image.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/files\/2020\/11\/Elizabeth_M33.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-882 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/files\/2020\/11\/Elizabeth_M33-1024x1022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"838\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Elizabeth_M33-1024x1022.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Elizabeth_M33-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Elizabeth_M33-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Elizabeth_M33-768x767.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/Elizabeth_M33.png 1302w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 840px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 840\/838;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Triangulum Galaxy (M33) by Elizabeth Warrick, BMC &#8217;21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elizabeth explains: &#8220;The Triangulum Galaxy is a very beautiful spiral galaxy that shows the wonderful structure galaxies can hold in the night sky. In this image you see a picture of the Triangulum Galaxy (lower right quadrant) imaged in the g,r, and i filters respectively. The filters I chose to observe allow us to look at the galaxy overall using the g,r, and i filters to get a good look at the wavelengths of light. Notice the faint spiral arm structure coming out of the slightly brighter center of the galaxy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image by Elizabeth Warrick, BMC &#8217;21 is her second attempt at imaging the Triangulum galaxy, the first one foiled by pointing issues. I&#8217;d\u00a0 like to applaud Elizabeth for her persistence in getting this tricky image. Elizabeth explains: &#8220;The Triangulum Galaxy is a very beautiful spiral galaxy that shows the wonderful structure galaxies can hold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/2020\/11\/17\/triangulum-galaxy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Triangulum Galaxy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}