{"id":115986,"date":"2020-11-17T20:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/orbits-of-ancient-stars-prompt-rethink-on-milky-way-evolution"},"modified":"2020-11-17T20:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:22:40","slug":"orbits-of-ancient-stars-prompt-rethink-on-milky-way-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/orbits-of-ancient-stars-prompt-rethink-on-milky-way-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Orbits of ancient stars prompt rethink on Milky Way evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/orbits-of-ancient-stars-prompt-rethink-on-milky-way-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theories on how the Milky Way formed are set to be rewritten following discoveries about the behavior of some of its oldest stars.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the orbits of the Galaxy\u2019s metal-poor stars\u2014assumed to be among the most ancient in existence\u2014has found that some of them travel in previously unpredicted patterns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetal-poor stars\u2014containing less than one-thousandth the amount of iron found in the Sun\u2014are some of the rarest objects in the galaxy,\u201d said Professor Gary Da Costa from Australia\u2019s ARC Center of Excellence in All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) and the Australian National University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theories on how the Milky Way formed are set to be rewritten following discoveries about the behavior of some of its oldest stars. An investigation into the orbits of the Galaxy\u2019s metal-poor stars\u2014assumed to be among the most ancient in existence\u2014has found that some of them travel in previously unpredicted patterns. \u201cMetal-poor stars\u2014containing less than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}