{"id":116182,"date":"2020-11-23T00:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/astronomers-discover-new-fossil-galaxy-buried-deep-within-the-hidden-depths-of-our-own-milky-way"},"modified":"2020-11-23T00:59:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:59:09","slug":"astronomers-discover-new-fossil-galaxy-buried-deep-within-the-hidden-depths-of-our-own-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/astronomers-discover-new-fossil-galaxy-buried-deep-within-the-hidden-depths-of-our-own-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover New \u201cFossil Galaxy\u201d Buried Deep Within the Hidden Depths of Our Own Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-new-fossil-galaxy-buried-deep-within-the-hidden-depths-of-our-own-milky-way.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys\u2019 Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a \u201cfossil galaxy\u201d hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This result, published today (November 20, 2020) in <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>, may shake up our understanding of how the Milky Way grew into the galaxy we see today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAPOGEE lets us pierce through that dust and see deeper into the heart of the Milky Way than ever before.\u201d \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys\u2019 Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a \u201cfossil galaxy\u201d hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way. This result, published today (November 20, 2020) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may shake up our understanding of how the Milky [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116182","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}