{"id":1623,"date":"2010-02-17T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/our-neighbor-andromeda\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T12:49:00","slug":"our-neighbor-andromeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/our-neighbor-andromeda.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Neighbor Andromeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/02\/17\/the-first-spectacular-views-of-the-sky-from-wise\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Phil Plait shared the new photo below<\/a> of a galaxy most of us have seen before, but never looking quite like this. This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">photo of the\u00a0Andromeda galaxy<\/a> was taken by WISE,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/WISE\/main\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASA\u2019s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/427006main_pia12832-c516.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/427006main_pia12832-c516.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8025306931096913807?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Plait shared the new photo below of a galaxy most of us have seen before, but never looking quite like this. 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