{"id":21824,"date":"2016-02-09T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/researchers-just-discovered-hundreds-of-galaxies-hidden-behind-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:58:20","slug":"researchers-just-discovered-hundreds-of-galaxies-hidden-behind-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/researchers-just-discovered-hundreds-of-galaxies-hidden-behind-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Just Discovered Hundreds of Galaxies Hidden Behind the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" id=\"vimeo-153727928\" data-recommend-id=\"vimeo:\/\/153727928\" src=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ajax\/inset\/iframe?id=vimeo-153727928&start=0\" height=\"450\" width=\"800\" class=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Xeelee had to build their damned ring SOMEWHERE\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cXeelee Sequence\u201d novels. by Stephen Baxter, are some of the best hard science fiction ever written. If you haven\u2019t read them, do so. Immediately. In the meantime (even if you\u2019ve already read the entire Xeelee series) check out this atmospheric musical composition by Oliver Lugg, inspired by the above mentioned science fiction series. It\u2019s quite beautiful: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TiYxHpGmPwQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TiYxHpGmPwQ<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Astronomers just uncovered hundreds of hidden galaxies a mere 250 million light years away from Earth\u2014well within our own galactic neighborhood. But how did they stay unknown for so long? The fault isn\u2019t with them, it\u2019s with our own Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research just completed a survey, published today in the <em>Astronomical Journal,<\/em> detailing the hundreds of newly discovered galaxies\u2014as well as giving a much better idea of where some older suspected galaxies were hiding. Altogether, they mapped 883 galaxies lurking behind the Milky Way; you can see an artist\u2019s representation above.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists had some idea that there was something out there \u2014 but they didn\u2019t know what. Some of the brightest clusters of galaxies were already visible, an even better clue, though, was a strange gravitational force pulling the Milky Way towards it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/researchers-just-discovered-hundreds-of-galaxies-hidden-1758049910\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xeelee had to build their damned ring SOMEWHERE\u2026 The \u201cXeelee Sequence\u201d novels. by Stephen Baxter, are some of the best hard science fiction ever written. If you haven\u2019t read them, do so. Immediately. In the meantime (even if you\u2019ve already read the entire Xeelee series) check out this atmospheric musical composition by Oliver Lugg, [\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-21824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21824","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=21824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62952,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21824\/revisions\/62952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}