{"id":612395,"date":"2026-09-26T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612395\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:18:16","slug":"hubble-spots-chaotic-secret-in-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612395\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Spots Chaotic Secret in Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A chaotic secret hides within this seemingly serene image of spiral galaxy NGC 4698 taken by NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope and released on Sept. 18, 2026. As a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way galaxy, NGC 4698 has spiral arms that curl around within a thin disk of stars, gas, and dust. These arms are marked by opaque clumps of brown dust and dotted with small collections of bright blue stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike many other spiral galaxies, NGC 4698\u2019s delicate spiral arms are only prominent in the outer reaches of the disk; spiral arms often wind down to the very center of a galaxy, but NGC 4698\u2019s spiral arms appear to shy away from its glowing center. The arms instead hover in a ring-like structure around the perimeter of the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/uncategorized\/nasas-hubble-spots-an-out-of-sync-galaxy\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this unusual spiral galaxy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Text credit: ESA\/Hubble<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: ESA\/Hubble &amp; NASA, D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chaotic secret hides within this seemingly serene image of spiral galaxy NGC 4698 taken by NASA\u2019s Hubble&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392,6072],"class_list":["post-612395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spiral-galaxies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612395","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=612395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}