{"id":149536,"date":"2022-11-05T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/astronomers-find-a-giant-new-galaxy-concealed-within-a-puzzling-region-of-the-milk-way"},"modified":"2022-11-05T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:23:32","slug":"astronomers-find-a-giant-new-galaxy-concealed-within-a-puzzling-region-of-the-milk-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/astronomers-find-a-giant-new-galaxy-concealed-within-a-puzzling-region-of-the-milk-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find a giant new galaxy concealed within a puzzling region of the Milk Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-a-giant-new-galaxy-concealed-within-a-puzzling-region-of-the-milk-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nobody has known what exists in this region of space known as the \u201cZone of Avoidance.\u201d Now astronomers edge one step closer.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found a giant \u201cextragalactic structure\u201d concealed behind the Milky Way, according to a new study published in Arxiv.<\/p>\n<p>The study explained that the zone of avoidance (ZOA) does not allow clear optical observations of extragalactic sources behind the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Genty\/Pixabay.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the structure, which appears to be a colossal galaxy cluster, contributes to filling in this mysterious region of our cosmic map, known as the \u201czone of avoidance.\u201d Nobody has known what exists in this region which obscures 10 to 20 percent of the sky-until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has known what exists in this region of space known as the \u201cZone of Avoidance.\u201d Now astronomers edge one step closer. Astronomers have found a giant \u201cextragalactic structure\u201d concealed behind the Milky Way, according to a new study published in Arxiv. The study explained that the zone of avoidance (ZOA) does not allow clear [\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-149536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149536","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=149536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}