{"id":215289,"date":"2025-06-03T13:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/how-the-milky-way-andromeda-merger-became-so-uncertain"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:12:55","slug":"how-the-milky-way-andromeda-merger-became-so-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/how-the-milky-way-andromeda-merger-became-so-uncertain","title":{"rendered":"How the Milky Way-Andromeda merger became so uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o2x_31dE04s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here\u2019s why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, astronomers have claimed the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in ~4 billion years. Here\u2019s why, in 2025, that seems unlikely.<\/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-215289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215289","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=215289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}