{"id":212656,"date":"2025-04-28T21:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-horizons-observations-lead-to-first-lyman-alpha-map-from-the-galaxy"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:03:36","slug":"new-horizons-observations-lead-to-first-lyman-alpha-map-from-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-horizons-observations-lead-to-first-lyman-alpha-map-from-the-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons observations lead to first Lyman-alpha map from the galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-horizons-observations-lead-to-first-lyman-alpha-map-from-the-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NASA New Horizons spacecraft\u2019s extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look at the galactic region surrounding our solar system. The findings are described in a new study authored by the SwRI-led New Horizons team.<\/p>\n<p>The newly <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-3881\/adc000\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> research paper detailing the observations and their interpretation, \u201cThe Lyman-alpha Sky as Observed by New Horizons at 57 AU,\u201d by R.G. Gladstone and co-authors appears in The Astronomical Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding the Lyman-alpha background helps shed light on nearby galactic structures and processes,\u201d said SwRI\u2019s Dr. Randy Gladstone, the study\u2019s lead investigator and first author of the publication. \u201cThis research suggests that hot interstellar gas bubbles like the one our <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar system<\/a> is embedded within may actually be regions of enhanced hydrogen gas emissions at a wavelength called Lyman alpha.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA New Horizons spacecraft\u2019s extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look at the galactic region surrounding our solar system. The findings are described in a new study authored by the SwRI-led New Horizons team. The newly published research [\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-212656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212656","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=212656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}