{"id":135567,"date":"2022-02-13T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T00:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/does-outer-space-end-or-does-the-universe-go-on-forever"},"modified":"2022-02-13T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T00:22:39","slug":"does-outer-space-end-or-does-the-universe-go-on-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/does-outer-space-end-or-does-the-universe-go-on-forever","title":{"rendered":"Does Outer Space End \u2014 Or Does the Universe Go On Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-outer-space-end-or-does-the-universe-go-on-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right above you is the sky \u2013 or as scientists would call it, the atmosphere. It extends about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/encyclopedia\/atmosphere\/\">20 miles (32 kilometers) above the Earth<\/a>. Floating around the atmosphere is a <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.britannica.com\/kids\/article\/molecule\/353479\">mixture of molecules<\/a> \u2013 tiny bits of air so small you take in billions of them every time you breathe.<\/p>\n<p>Above the atmosphere is space. 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 \u2013 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\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right above you is the sky \u2013 or as scientists would call it, the atmosphere. It extends about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the Earth. Floating around the atmosphere is a mixture of molecules \u2013 tiny bits of air so small you take in billions of them every time you breathe. Above the atmosphere is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135567","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=135567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}