{"id":21544,"date":"2016-02-02T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/our-galaxy-might-have-already-died-we-just-dont-know-it-yet-scientist-warns"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:38:12","slug":"our-galaxy-might-have-already-died-we-just-dont-know-it-yet-scientist-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/our-galaxy-might-have-already-died-we-just-dont-know-it-yet-scientist-warns","title":{"rendered":"Our Galaxy Might Have Already Died \u2014 We Just Don\u2019t Know It Yet, Scientist Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/video\/epic-time-lapse-milky-way-092600826.html?format=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"304\" width=\"540\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It sounds fairly alarming \u2014 but a scientist claims that our galaxy may not just be in the process of dying, but already be dead. Kevin Schawinski of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, explains that galaxies \u2018die\u2019 when they stop forming new stars from gas. \u2018This may sound scenic, but refers to the population between the blue star-forming galaxies (the \u2018blue cloud\u2019) and the red, passively evolving galaxies (the \u2018red sequence\u2019).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/our-galaxy-might-have-already-died-we-just-dont-101506914.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds fairly alarming \u2014 but a scientist claims that our galaxy may not just be in the process of dying, but already be dead. Kevin Schawinski of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, explains that galaxies \u2018die\u2019 when they stop forming new stars from gas. \u2018This may sound scenic, but refers to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44148,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions\/44148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}