{"id":127978,"date":"2021-09-22T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-strange-void-found-in-space-could-solve-an-enduring-mystery"},"modified":"2021-09-22T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T02:22:20","slug":"a-strange-void-found-in-space-could-solve-an-enduring-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-strange-void-found-in-space-could-solve-an-enduring-mystery","title":{"rendered":"A strange void found in space could solve an enduring mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bYgPC-5Wak0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This void spans across nearly 500 light years.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Although space is vast, it mostly teems with gas, dust, rocky objects, or stars. But this region wedged between the star-forming clouds was bare, puzzling the astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we see is the cavity, which means that there was some powerful mechanism to excavate this region,\u201d Bialy says.<\/p>\n<p>The data revealed that the Perseus and Taurus molecular clouds are not two independent structures but that they actually formed from the same event. And the scientists behind the new study believe that event may have been a supernova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This void spans across nearly 500 light years. Although space is vast, it mostly teems with gas, dust, rocky objects, or stars. But this region wedged between the star-forming clouds was bare, puzzling the astronomers. \u201cWhat we see is the cavity, which means that there was some powerful mechanism to excavate this region,\u201d Bialy says. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127978","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=127978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}