{"id":154966,"date":"2023-01-09T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/astronomers-may-have-solved-the-mystery-of-the-bubbles-towering-over-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2023-01-09T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:22:21","slug":"astronomers-may-have-solved-the-mystery-of-the-bubbles-towering-over-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/astronomers-may-have-solved-the-mystery-of-the-bubbles-towering-over-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers May Have Solved The Mystery of The Bubbles Towering Over The Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-may-have-solved-the-mystery-of-the-bubbles-towering-over-the-milky-way3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope entered low-Earth orbit in 2008, it opened our eyes to a whole new Universe of high-energy radiation.<\/p>\n<p>One of its more curious discoveries was the <a href=\"https:\/\/fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov\/science\/constellations\/pages\/bubbles.html\">Fermi Bubbles<\/a>: giant, symmetrical blobs extending above and below the galactic plane, 25,000 light-years on each side from the Milky Way\u2019s center, glowing in gamma-ray light \u2013 the highest energy wavelength ranges on the electromagnetic spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in 2020, an X-ray telescope named eROSITA found another surprise: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-are-colossal-x-ray-bubbles-expanding-above-and-below-the-milky-way\">even bigger bubbles<\/a> extending over 45,000 light-years on each side of the galactic plane, this time emitting less energetic X-rays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope entered low-Earth orbit in 2008, it opened our eyes to a whole new Universe of high-energy radiation. One of its more curious discoveries was the Fermi Bubbles: giant, symmetrical blobs extending above and below the galactic plane, 25,000 light-years on each side from the Milky Way\u2019s center, glowing in [\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-154966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154966","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=154966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}