{"id":131107,"date":"2021-11-23T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/magellanic-stream-arcing-over-milky-way-may-be-five-times-closer-than-previously-thought"},"modified":"2021-11-23T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:22:27","slug":"magellanic-stream-arcing-over-milky-way-may-be-five-times-closer-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/magellanic-stream-arcing-over-milky-way-may-be-five-times-closer-than-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"Magellanic Stream arcing over Milky Way may be five times closer than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magellanic-stream-arcing-over-milky-way-may-be-five-times-closer-than-previously-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies\u2014the biggest of which are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible in the night sky of the Southern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>During their dance around the Milky Way over billions of years, the Magellanic Clouds\u2019 gravity has ripped from each of them an enormous arc of gas\u2014the Magellanic Stream. The stream helps tell the history of how the Milky Way and its closest galaxies came to be and what their future looks like.<\/p>\n<p>New astronomical models developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and the Space Telescope Science Institute recreate the birth of the Magellanic Stream over the last 3.5 billion years. Using the latest data on the structure of the gas, the researchers discovered that the stream may be five times closer to Earth than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies\u2014the biggest of which are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible in the night sky of the Southern Hemisphere. During their dance around the Milky Way over billions of years, the Magellanic Clouds\u2019 gravity has ripped from each of them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131107","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=131107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}