{"id":122610,"date":"2021-05-15T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/first-images-of-the-cosmic-web-reveal-unsuspected-presence-of-billions-of-dwarf-galaxies"},"modified":"2021-05-15T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:22:28","slug":"first-images-of-the-cosmic-web-reveal-unsuspected-presence-of-billions-of-dwarf-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/first-images-of-the-cosmic-web-reveal-unsuspected-presence-of-billions-of-dwarf-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"First Images of the Cosmic Web Reveal Unsuspected Presence of Billions of Dwarf Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-images-of-the-cosmic-web-reveal-unsuspected-presence-of-billions-of-dwarf-galaxies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team took the bold step of pointing ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope, equipped with the MUSE instrument coupled to the telescope\u2019s adaptive optics system, at a single region of the sky for over 140 hours. Together, the two instruments form one of the most powerful systems in the world.<sup>[3]<\/sup> The region selected forms part of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, which was until now the deepest image of the cosmos ever obtained. However, Hubble has now been surpassed, since 40% of the galaxies discovered by MUSE have no counterpart in the Hubble images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team took the bold step of pointing ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope, equipped with the MUSE instrument coupled to the telescope\u2019s adaptive optics system, at a single region of the sky for over 140 hours. Together, the two instruments form one of the most powerful systems in the world.[3] The region selected forms part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122610","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=122610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}