{"id":199137,"date":"2024-11-09T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/astronomers-discover-interstellar-tunnel-in-our-solar-neighborhood"},"modified":"2024-11-09T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T20:23:39","slug":"astronomers-discover-interstellar-tunnel-in-our-solar-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/astronomers-discover-interstellar-tunnel-in-our-solar-neighborhood","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover \u201cInterstellar Tunnel\u201d In Our Solar Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-interstellar-tunnel-in-our-solar-neighborhood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202451045\" class=\"\">new study<\/a> published in the journal <i>Astronomy &amp; and Astrophysics,<\/i> the tunnel exists as part of an enormous structure of hot gas with a radius of hundreds of light years that surrounds our solar system known as the Local Hot Bubble. What\u2019s more, the findings suggest that it could connect with a nearby and even larger bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Using extensive data collected by the eROSITA telescope, the first x-ray observatory fully outside of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, the researchers generated a 3D model of the entire LHB, confirming some features that astronomers had predicted, but also uncovering entirely new ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we didn\u2019t know was the existence of an interstellar tunnel towards Centaurus, which carves a gap in the cooler interstellar medium,\u201d said study coauthor Michael Freyberg, an astronomer at Germany\u2019s Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-10-erosita-survey-unveils-asymmetries-temperature.html\" class=\"\">in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThis region stands out in stark relief thanks to the much-improved sensitivity of eROSITA and a vastly different surveying strategy compared to ROSAT,\u201d the space telescope\u2019s predecessor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As detailed in a new study published in the journal Astronomy &amp; and Astrophysics, the tunnel exists as part of an enormous structure of hot gas with a radius of hundreds of light years that surrounds our solar system known as the Local Hot Bubble. What\u2019s more, the findings suggest that it could connect with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199137","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}