{"id":111398,"date":"2019-10-31T18:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T20:39:55","slug":"halloween-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/halloween-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201226114138\/https:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hubble space telescope<\/a> has discovered this haunting specter with glowing eyes glaring at us from deep space for Halloween.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-111401\" title=\"Halloween 2019\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpaceFace.jpg?resize=400%2C433&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Halloween 2019\" width=\"400\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpaceFace.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpaceFace.jpg?resize=69%2C75&amp;ssl=1 69w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpaceFace.jpg?resize=138%2C150&amp;ssl=1 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Space.com<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/hubble-space-ghost-galaxy-collision-image.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explains<\/a> that the halloween visitor is. The piercing &#8220;eyes&#8221; of this creepy space face are two distant galaxies in the middle of a head-on collision. A ring of young blue stars contours the shape of the eerie face. The dense clumps of stars have come together to form its nose and mouth.<\/p>\n<p>This galaxy merger is known as Arp-Madore 2026-424. The designation combines the names of the two astronomers that first <a href=\"https:\/\/ned.ipac.caltech.edu\/level5\/SPGA_Atlas\/frames.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">documented it<\/a>. Arp-Madore 2026-424 is about 704 million light-years away from Earth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constellation-guide.com\/constellation-list\/microscopium-constellation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">constellation Microscopium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/jpl\/spitzer-telescope-spots-a-ghoulish-gourd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spitzer Telescope Spots a Ghoulish Gourd<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA spotted a haunting specter with glowing eyes glaring at us from deep space for Halloween called Arp-Madore 2026-424 in the constellation Microscopium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3125],"tags":[3161,1490,2284,3378,242],"class_list":["post-111398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-3161","tag-aliens","tag-halloween","tag-hubble","tag-nasa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131762,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111398\/revisions\/131762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}