{"id":418895,"date":"2026-05-09T02:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418895\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:47:09","slug":"nasa-telescope-captures-stunning-image-of-distant-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418895\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA telescope captures stunning image of distant galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A spiral galaxy\u2019s brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA\u2019s Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>The image released this week depicts the Messier 77 galaxy 45 million light-years away in the Cetus, or whale, constellation. A light year is about 6 trillion miles.<\/p>\n<p>The galaxy\u2019s active nucleus is powered by a supermassive black hole that\u2019s 8 million times more massive than the sun. Surrounding gas is sucked into a tight orbit around the black hole, becoming so hot that it radiates in the extreme. Webb\u2019s mid-infrared instrument captured the stunning details.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest and most powerful space telescope has been photographing the cosmos since launching in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spiral galaxy\u2019s brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA\u2019s Webb Space Telescope.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-418895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418895","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=418895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}