{"id":152388,"date":"2022-12-10T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/peekaboo-galaxy-emerges-from-hiding-and-its-a-time-capsule-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2022-12-10T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:24:24","slug":"peekaboo-galaxy-emerges-from-hiding-and-its-a-time-capsule-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/peekaboo-galaxy-emerges-from-hiding-and-its-a-time-capsule-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Peekaboo\u2019 Galaxy Emerges From Hiding, And It\u2019s A Time Capsule of The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/peekaboo-galaxy-emerges-from-hiding-and-its-a-time-capsule-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A galaxy that has taunted astronomers since they first detected a hint of its presence more than 20 years ago has finally emerged from hiding.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called HIPASS J1131-31, or Peekaboo, and it is located just 22 million light-years away. And it was so hard to see because it\u2019s teeny tiny and obscured by a bright star in the Milky Way that sits almost directly in front of it.<\/p>\n<p>Through a collaborative effort that involved space-and ground-based telescopes, scientists have learned that the extremely small Peekaboo is also extremely young and close \u2013 offering a snapshot of galactic infancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A galaxy that has taunted astronomers since they first detected a hint of its presence more than 20 years ago has finally emerged from hiding. It\u2019s called HIPASS J1131-31, or Peekaboo, and it is located just 22 million light-years away. And it was so hard to see because it\u2019s teeny tiny and obscured by a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152388","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}