{"id":140667,"date":"2022-06-15T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T04:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/previously-hidden-protoclusters-could-reveal-new-details-of-galaxy-evolution"},"modified":"2022-06-15T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T04:05:08","slug":"previously-hidden-protoclusters-could-reveal-new-details-of-galaxy-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/previously-hidden-protoclusters-could-reveal-new-details-of-galaxy-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Previously hidden protoclusters could reveal new details of galaxy evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/previously-hidden-protoclusters-could-reveal-new-details-of-galaxy-evolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ancestors of some of the largest galaxy clusters have been hiding in plain sight. New work led by Carnegie\u2019s Andrew Newman demonstrates a new technique for identifying the precursors of the most extreme galactic environments. The team\u2019s findings are published in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Like all of us, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/galaxies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">galaxies<\/a> are shaped and molded by their surroundings. To obtain a complete picture of the various physical influences on a galaxy\u2019s lifecycle, it\u2019s crucial to trace the emergence of properties caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+factors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental factors<\/a> as they arise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known for a long time that the colors, masses, and shapes of galaxies depend on their cosmic environment, but there\u2019s a lot we don\u2019t know about when and how those differences appeared,\u201d Newman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancestors of some of the largest galaxy clusters have been hiding in plain sight. New work led by Carnegie\u2019s Andrew Newman demonstrates a new technique for identifying the precursors of the most extreme galactic environments. The team\u2019s findings are published in Nature. Like all of us, galaxies are shaped and molded by their surroundings. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140667","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}