{"id":270086,"date":"2026-02-06T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270086\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:10:10","slug":"hubble-spots-lens-shaped-galaxy-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270086\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Spots Lens-Shaped Galaxy &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new Hubble image, released on Jan. 30, 2026, is the sharpest taken of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation\u00a0Pegasus. A lenticular, meaning \u201clens-shaped,\u201d galaxy is a type whose classification sits between more familiar\u00a0spiral galaxies\u00a0and\u00a0elliptical galaxies. It is also less common than spirals and ellipticals \u2014 partly because these galaxies have a somewhat ambiguous appearance, making it hard to determine if it is a spiral, an elliptical, or something in between.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-sees-galaxy-with-dark-rings-in-new-light\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about this observation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: \u00a0ESA\/Hubble &amp; NASA, R. J. Foley (UC Santa Cruz), Dark Energy Survey\/DOE\/FNAL\/DECam\/CTIO\/NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA; Acknowledgment: Mehmet Y\u00fcksek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This new Hubble image, released on Jan. 30, 2026, is the sharpest taken of NGC 7722, a lenticular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[153115,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-270086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-lenticular-galaxies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}