{"id":198879,"date":"2024-11-07T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-milky-way-has-already-started-the-process-of-colliding-with-the-andromeda-galaxy-an-event-previously-predicted-to-be-four-billion-years-away"},"modified":"2024-11-07T09:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:25:02","slug":"the-milky-way-has-already-started-the-process-of-colliding-with-the-andromeda-galaxy-an-event-previously-predicted-to-be-four-billion-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-milky-way-has-already-started-the-process-of-colliding-with-the-andromeda-galaxy-an-event-previously-predicted-to-be-four-billion-years-away","title":{"rendered":"The Milky Way Has Already Started The Process Of Colliding With The Andromeda Galaxy, An Event Previously Predicted To Be Four Billion Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-milky-way-has-already-started-the-process-of-colliding-with-the-andromeda-galaxy-an-event-previously-predicted-to-be-four-billion-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe circumgalactic medium plays a huge role in that cycling of that gas. So, being able to understand what the CGM looks like around galaxies of different types \u2014 ones that are star-forming, those that are no longer star-forming, and those that are transitioning between the two \u2014 we can observe [how] changes in this reservoir may actually be driving the changes in the galaxy itself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As technology evolves astronomers will likely be able to look at the CGM of other more distant galaxies and learn more about them as well.<\/p>\n<p>The colliding of galaxies sounds terrifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe circumgalactic medium plays a huge role in that cycling of that gas. So, being able to understand what the CGM looks like around galaxies of different types \u2014 ones that are star-forming, those that are no longer star-forming, and those that are transitioning between the two \u2014 we can observe [how] changes in this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198879","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}