{"id":19257,"date":"2015-11-11T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/our-milky-way-galaxy-has-a-mysterious-great-dark-lane"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:47:07","slug":"our-milky-way-galaxy-has-a-mysterious-great-dark-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/our-milky-way-galaxy-has-a-mysterious-great-dark-lane","title":{"rendered":"Our Milky Way Galaxy Has a Mysterious \u2018Great Dark Lane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-milky-way-galaxy-has-a-mysterious-great-dark-lane.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Called the \u201cGreat Dark Lane\u201d by the astronomers who announced it, the dusty road twists in front of the bulge of the galaxy. \u201cFor the first time, we could map this dust lane at large scales, because our new infrared maps cover the whole central region of the Milky Way,\u201d Dante Minniti, a researcher at Universidad Andres Bello in Chile and lead author of a study describing the findings, told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> by email. \u201cIt is very difficult to mapthe structure of our galaxy because we are inside, and it is very large and covered with dust clouds that are opaque in the optical,\u201d Minniti said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/milky-way-galaxy-mysterious-great-dark-lane-130542033.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Called the \u201cGreat Dark Lane\u201d by the astronomers who announced it, the dusty road twists in front of the bulge of the galaxy. \u201cFor the first time, we could map this dust lane at large scales, because our new infrared maps cover the whole central region of the Milky Way,\u201d Dante Minniti, a researcher at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257","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=19257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51327,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions\/51327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}