{"id":125632,"date":"2021-07-29T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-capture-most-detailed-radio-image-of-andromeda-galaxy-to-date"},"modified":"2021-07-29T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:23:25","slug":"scientists-capture-most-detailed-radio-image-of-andromeda-galaxy-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-capture-most-detailed-radio-image-of-andromeda-galaxy-to-date","title":{"rendered":"Scientists capture most-detailed radio image of Andromeda galaxy to date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-capture-most-detailed-radio-image-of-andromeda-galaxy-to-date2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have published a new, detailed radio image of the Andromeda galaxy\u2014the Milky Way\u2019s sister galaxy\u2014which will allow them to identify and study the regions of Andromeda where new stars are born.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2014which is the first to create a radio image of Andromeda at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microwave+frequency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microwave frequency<\/a> of 6.6 GHz\u2014was led by University of British Columbia physicist Sofia Fatigoni, with colleagues at Sapienza University of Rome and the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. It was published online in Astronomy and Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis image will allow us to study the structure of Andromeda and its content in more detail than has ever been possible,\u201d said Fatigoni, a Ph.D. student in the department of physics and astronomy at UBC. \u201cUnderstanding the nature of physical processes that take place inside Andromeda allows us to understand what happens in our own galaxy more clearly\u2014as if we were looking at ourselves from the outside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have published a new, detailed radio image of the Andromeda galaxy\u2014the Milky Way\u2019s sister galaxy\u2014which will allow them to identify and study the regions of Andromeda where new stars are born. The study\u2014which is the first to create a radio image of Andromeda at the microwave frequency of 6.6 GHz\u2014was led by University 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":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125632","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=125632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}