{"id":211976,"date":"2025-04-21T05:09:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/magnetic-fields-can-map-the-universe"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T10:09:45","slug":"magnetic-fields-can-map-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/magnetic-fields-can-map-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Fields Can Map the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-fields-can-map-the-universe.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful?<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within the Milky Way using a technique called Faraday rotation.<\/p>\n<p>It works like this. There\u2019s a bunch of dust \u2013 literal dust grains \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/articles\/this-is-a-simulation-of-the-interstellar-medium-flowing-like-smoke-throughout-the-milky-way\"> floating within the galaxy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within the Milky Way using a technique called Faraday rotation. It works like this. There\u2019s a bunch of dust \u2013 literal dust grains \u2013 floating within the galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211976","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}