{"id":140722,"date":"2022-06-17T06:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/did-supernovae-help-form-barnards-loop"},"modified":"2022-06-17T06:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:23:22","slug":"did-supernovae-help-form-barnards-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/did-supernovae-help-form-barnards-loop","title":{"rendered":"Did supernovae help form Barnard\u2019s Loop?"},"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\/6LmWXfOQ7qs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers studying the structure of the Milky Way galaxy have released the highest-resolution 3D view of the Orion star-forming region. The image and <a href=\"https:\/\/faun.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/czucker\/Paper_Figures\/mfoley\/orion_region_interactive.html\">interactive figure<\/a> were presented today at a press conference hosted by the American Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian, the work connects 3D data on young stars and interstellar gas around the Orion complex of star-forming regions. Analysis of the 2D and 3D images, alongside theoretical modeling, shows that supernova explosions within the last 4 million years produced large cavities in the interstellar material associated with Orion.<\/p>\n<p>One particular cavity the team discovered may help explain the origin of Barnard\u2019s Loop, a famous and mysterious semi-circle in the night sky first observed in 1894.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers studying the structure of the Milky Way galaxy have released the highest-resolution 3D view of the Orion star-forming region. The image and interactive figure were presented today at a press conference hosted by the American Astronomical Society. Led by researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian, the work connects 3D data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140722","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=140722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}