{"id":147216,"date":"2022-09-29T17:24:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/our-galaxy-is-rippling-thanks-to-a-mysterious-force-we-might-finally-know-what-it-is"},"modified":"2022-09-29T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:24:45","slug":"our-galaxy-is-rippling-thanks-to-a-mysterious-force-we-might-finally-know-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/our-galaxy-is-rippling-thanks-to-a-mysterious-force-we-might-finally-know-what-it-is","title":{"rendered":"Our galaxy is rippling thanks to a mysterious force \u2014 we might finally know what it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-galaxy-is-rippling-thanks-to-a-mysterious-force-we-might-finally-know-what-it-is2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An analysis of over 20 million stars shed new light on our galaxy\u2019s cannibalistic past.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby mini-galaxy, the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, slowly crashed through the Milky Way and ripped stars out of their regular orbits on more than one occasion, according to a new paper in the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Their analysis shed new light on the galaxy\u2019s violent past \u2014 one in which galaxies tear into each other, shifting their structures for eons to come.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Alex-mit\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers used data from the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia space observatory to compare the movements of over 20 million stars located throughout our galaxy, as per a LiveScience report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of over 20 million stars shed new light on our galaxy\u2019s cannibalistic past. A nearby mini-galaxy, the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, slowly crashed through the Milky Way and ripped stars out of their regular orbits on more than one occasion, according to a new paper in the Royal Astronomical Society. Their analysis shed new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147216","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}