{"id":15773,"date":"2015-07-28T20:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T03:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/astronomers-discover-a-new-class-of-freakishly-dense-compact-galaxies"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:51:09","slug":"astronomers-discover-a-new-class-of-freakishly-dense-compact-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/astronomers-discover-a-new-class-of-freakishly-dense-compact-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover a New Class of Freakishly Dense, Compact Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-a-new-class-of-freakishly-dense-compact-galaxies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine what our night sky would look like if its stellar density was a million times greater than it is now. Remarkably, such places actually exist: They\u2019re called \u201cUltracompact Dwarfs,\u201d and astronomers are calling them an entirely new kind of galaxy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/astronomers-discover-a-new-class-of-freakishly-dense-c-1720595907\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine what our night sky would look like if its stellar density was a million times greater than it is now. Remarkably, such places actually exist: They\u2019re called \u201cUltracompact Dwarfs,\u201d and astronomers are calling them an entirely new kind of galaxy. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64520,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/64520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}