{"id":127624,"date":"2021-09-13T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/does-the-universe-end-an-astronomer-weighs-in"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T00:23:21","slug":"does-the-universe-end-an-astronomer-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/does-the-universe-end-an-astronomer-weighs-in","title":{"rendered":"Does the universe end? An astronomer weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-the-universe-end-an-astronomer-weighs-in2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above the atmosphere is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/who-is-astronaut-jeff-bezos-richard-branson\">space<\/a>. It\u2019s called that because it has far fewer molecules, with lots of empty space between them.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel to outer space \u2014 and then keep going? What would you find? <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/search\/q=%20author%3A%22singal%2C%20jack%22&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&p_=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Scientists like me<\/a> are able to explain a lot of what you\u2019d see. But there are some things we don\u2019t know yet, like whether space just goes on forever.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Planets, stars, and galaxies<\/strong><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above the atmosphere is space. It\u2019s called that because it has far fewer molecules, with lots of empty space between them. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel to outer space \u2014 and then keep going? What would you find? Scientists like me are able to explain a lot of what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127624","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}