{"id":153399,"date":"2022-12-22T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/astronomers-have-discovered-the-poor-old-heart-of-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2022-12-22T07:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:22:37","slug":"astronomers-have-discovered-the-poor-old-heart-of-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/astronomers-have-discovered-the-poor-old-heart-of-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Discovered The \u2018Poor Old Heart\u2019 of The Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-discovered-the-poor-old-heart-of-the-milky-way3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A smattering of stars scattered throughout the center of the Milky Way is the remnants of the ancient galactic core, when our galaxy was still new.<\/p>\n<p>Using measurements from the most accurate three-dimensional map of the galaxy ever compiled, as well as a neural network to probe the chemical compositions of over 2 million stars, a team of astronomers have identified 18,000 stars from our galaxy\u2019s infancy, when it was just a compact collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protogalaxy\">proto-galaxies<\/a> coming together to dream of bigger things.<\/p>\n<p>Hints of this stellar population have been identified in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04496-5\">previous studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smattering of stars scattered throughout the center of the Milky Way is the remnants of the ancient galactic core, when our galaxy was still new. Using measurements from the most accurate three-dimensional map of the galaxy ever compiled, as well as a neural network to probe the chemical compositions of over 2 million stars, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153399","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=153399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}