{"id":1614,"date":"2025-05-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2025-05-22T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:46:09","slug":"astronomers-saw-one-galaxy-impale-another-the-damage-was-an-eye-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/astronomers-saw-one-galaxy-impale-another-the-damage-was-an-eye-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers saw one galaxy impale another. The damage was an eye-opener."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/astronomers-saw-one-galaxy-impale-another-the-damage-was-an_scar.640.jpg\">Scientists are calling it the &#8220;cosmic joust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two extremely distant galaxies appear to be ramming into each other over and over again at speeds of over 1 million mph. <\/p>\n<p>The pair \u2014 dueling it out 11 billion <u><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/how-long-is-a-light-year\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light-years<\/a><\/u> away in <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">space<\/a><\/u> \u2014 has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are calling it the &#8220;cosmic joust.&#8221; Two extremely distant galaxies appear to be ramming into each other over and over again at speeds of over 1 million mph. The pair \u2014 dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space \u2014 has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}