{"id":202310,"date":"2024-12-24T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/astronomers-say-they-found-a-tunnel-connecting-our-solar-system-to-other-stars"},"modified":"2024-12-24T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:04:21","slug":"astronomers-say-they-found-a-tunnel-connecting-our-solar-system-to-other-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/astronomers-say-they-found-a-tunnel-connecting-our-solar-system-to-other-stars","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers say they found a tunnel connecting our solar system to other stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-say-they-found-a-tunnel-connecting-our-solar-system-to-other-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have made a startling discovery. Using data from the eRosita X-ray instrument, researchers say they\u2019ve discovered a \u201ccosmic tunnel\u201d that connects our solar system to other stars.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long known that our solar system exists in a Local Hot Bubble. This bubble is believed to have formed following several supernovas over the past several million years and is estimated to be around 300 light-years across.<\/p>\n<p>Using data from the eRosita, researchers from the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/en\">Max Planck Institute<\/a> say they found evidence of a cosmic tunnel stretching from our solar system out toward the Centaurus constellation. The tunnel appears to move through the material that makes up the Local Hot Bubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have made a startling discovery. Using data from the eRosita X-ray instrument, researchers say they\u2019ve discovered a \u201ccosmic tunnel\u201d that connects our solar system to other stars. Scientists have long known that our solar system exists in a Local Hot Bubble. This bubble is believed to have formed following several supernovas over the past [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202310","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}