{"id":123992,"date":"2021-06-19T22:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T05:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/journey-to-the-center-of-the-galaxy"},"modified":"2021-06-19T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T05:24:01","slug":"journey-to-the-center-of-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/journey-to-the-center-of-the-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the Center of the Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/journey-to-the-center-of-the-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We live in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a collection of stars, gas, dust, and a supermassive black hole at it\u2019s very center. Our Galaxy is a spiral galaxy, which are rotating structures that are flat (disk-like) like a DVD when looked upon edge-on. There is also a bulge in the middle that consists of mostly old stars. When you look at a spiral galaxy face-on, you can see beautiful spiral arms where stars are being born. Our solar system is in the Orion arm, and we are about 25000 light years (2.5 \u00d7 10<sup>17<\/sup> miles) from the very center of the Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Schematic of the milky way credit: oglethorpe university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a collection of stars, gas, dust, and a supermassive black hole at it\u2019s very center. Our Galaxy is a spiral galaxy, which are rotating structures that are flat (disk-like) like a DVD when looked upon edge-on. There is also a bulge in the middle that consists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123992","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}