{"id":186635,"date":"2024-04-02T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/astronomers-have-found-what-may-be-the-smallest-galaxy-ever"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:23:41","slug":"astronomers-have-found-what-may-be-the-smallest-galaxy-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/astronomers-have-found-what-may-be-the-smallest-galaxy-ever","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers have found what may be the smallest galaxy ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-found-what-may-be-the-smallest-galaxy-ever3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tiny clump of stars orbiting our galaxy should have been ripped apart by the Milky Way, but its continued existence hints it may be held together by a massive amount of dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/leah-crane\/\" class=\"\">Leah Crane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny clump of stars orbiting our galaxy should have been ripped apart by the Milky Way, but its continued existence hints it may be held together by a massive amount of dark matter. By Leah Crane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186635","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}