{"id":194852,"date":"2024-08-20T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T04:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nasa-citizen-scientists-spot-object-moving-1-million-miles-per-hour"},"modified":"2024-08-20T23:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T04:25:30","slug":"nasa-citizen-scientists-spot-object-moving-1-million-miles-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nasa-citizen-scientists-spot-object-moving-1-million-miles-per-hour","title":{"rendered":"NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-citizen-scientists-spot-object-moving-1-million-miles-per-hour2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/citizen-science\/\">citizen scientists<\/a> working on NASA\u2019s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way\u2019s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or less than that of a small star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA\u2019s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way\u2019s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194852","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}