{"id":118864,"date":"2021-01-25T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/what-new-horizons-found-in-deep-space-and-why-it-matters"},"modified":"2021-01-25T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:22:38","slug":"what-new-horizons-found-in-deep-space-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/what-new-horizons-found-in-deep-space-and-why-it-matters","title":{"rendered":"What New Horizons Found in Deep Space \u2014 And Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-new-horizons-found-in-deep-space-and-why-it-matters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s mission to the outer solar system has found more light than expected. That could mean more galaxies in the visible universe than we thought\u2014 or less, depending on who you talk to.<\/p>\n<p>Point a telescope at a square of space and you\u2019re liable to see something \u2014 stars, galaxies, interstellar gas. Now, subtract everything you already know about, and you ought to see nothing \u2014 black space. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong, according to scientists on the New Horizons team. The spacecraft that flew by Pluto, Charon, and another Kuiper Belt object named Arrokoth has now turned its camera to far-off vistas, only to discover that there\u2019s more light there than we expected. That could have huge implications if it pans out, but tallying all the universe\u2019s light sources gets a bit complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s mission to the outer solar system has found more light than expected. That could mean more galaxies in the visible universe than we thought\u2014 or less, depending on who you talk to. Point a telescope at a square of space and you\u2019re liable to see something \u2014 stars, galaxies, interstellar gas. Now, subtract everything [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118864","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=118864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}