{"id":147764,"date":"2022-10-08T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/hubble-space-telescope-detects-protective-shield-defending-a-pair-of-dwarf-galaxies"},"modified":"2022-10-08T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:23:36","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-detects-protective-shield-defending-a-pair-of-dwarf-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/hubble-space-telescope-detects-protective-shield-defending-a-pair-of-dwarf-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope Detects Protective Shield Defending a Pair of Dwarf Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-space-telescope-detects-protective-shield-defending-a-pair-of-dwarf-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For billions of years, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds \u2013 the Milky Way\u2019s largest satellite galaxies \u2013 have followed a perilous journey. Orbiting one another as they are pulled in toward our home galaxy, they have begun to unravel, leaving behind trails of gaseous debris. And yet these dwarf galaxies remain intact, with ongoing vigorous star formation, leaving astronomers baffled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people were struggling to explain how these streams of material could be there,\u201d said Dhanesh Krishnarao, assistant professor at Colorado College. \u201cIf this gas was removed from these galaxies, how are they still forming stars?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers led by Krishnarao has finally found the answer, with the help of data from NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For billions of years, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds \u2013 the Milky Way\u2019s largest satellite galaxies \u2013 have followed a perilous journey. Orbiting one another as they are pulled in toward our home galaxy, they have begun to unravel, leaving behind trails of gaseous debris. And yet these dwarf galaxies remain intact, with ongoing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147764","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=147764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}