{"id":151037,"date":"2022-11-24T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/astronomers-observe-intra-group-light-the-elusive-glow-between-distant-galaxies"},"modified":"2022-11-24T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T02:24:18","slug":"astronomers-observe-intra-group-light-the-elusive-glow-between-distant-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/astronomers-observe-intra-group-light-the-elusive-glow-between-distant-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers observe intra-group light\u2014the elusive glow between distant galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-observe-intra-group-light-the-elusive-glow-between-distant-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers have turned a new technique onto a group of galaxies and the faint light <i>between<\/i> them\u2014known as \u2018intra-group light\u2019\u2014to characterize the stars that dwell there.<\/p>\n<p>Lead author of the study published in <i>MNRAS<\/i>, Dr. Cristina Mart\u00ednez-Lombilla from the School of Physics at UNSW Science, said We know almost nothing about intra-group light.<\/p>\n<p>The brightest parts of the intra-group light are ~50 times fainter than the darkest night sky on Earth. It is extremely hard to detect, even with the largest telescopes on Earth\u2014or in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers have turned a new technique onto a group of galaxies and the faint light between them\u2014known as \u2018intra-group light\u2019\u2014to characterize the stars that dwell there. Lead author of the study published in MNRAS, Dr. Cristina Mart\u00ednez-Lombilla from the School of Physics at UNSW Science, said We know almost nothing about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151037","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=151037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}