{"id":124632,"date":"2021-07-06T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/astronomers-detect-a-lurking-cosmic-cloud-bigger-than-the-entire-milky-way"},"modified":"2021-07-06T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:23:20","slug":"astronomers-detect-a-lurking-cosmic-cloud-bigger-than-the-entire-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/astronomers-detect-a-lurking-cosmic-cloud-bigger-than-the-entire-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Detect a Lurking Cosmic Cloud, Bigger Than The Entire Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-detect-a-lurking-cosmic-cloud-bigger-than-the-entire-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the yawning vacuum of intergalactic space, something large is lurking.<\/p>\n<p>Not a galaxy, although it\u2019s of a comparable size: A vast cloud of hot, faintly glowing gas, bigger than the Milky Way, in the space between galaxies congregating in a huge cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe this cloud may have been unceremoniously stripped from a galaxy in the cluster, the first gas cloud of this kind we\u2019ve ever seen. Even more surprisingly, it hasn\u2019t dissipated, but has remained clumped together for hundreds of millions of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the yawning vacuum of intergalactic space, something large is lurking. Not a galaxy, although it\u2019s of a comparable size: A vast cloud of hot, faintly glowing gas, bigger than the Milky Way, in the space between galaxies congregating in a huge cluster. Scientists believe this cloud may have been unceremoniously stripped from a galaxy [\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-124632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124632","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=124632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}