{"id":220063,"date":"2025-08-14T03:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/no-one-had-any-idea-this-existed-astronomers-discover-hidden-river-of-gas-flowing-to-the-milky-ways-heart"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:23:15","slug":"no-one-had-any-idea-this-existed-astronomers-discover-hidden-river-of-gas-flowing-to-the-milky-ways-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/no-one-had-any-idea-this-existed-astronomers-discover-hidden-river-of-gas-flowing-to-the-milky-ways-heart","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo One Had Any Idea This Existed\u201d \u2014 Astronomers Discover Hidden River of Gas Flowing to the Milky Way\u2019s Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-one-had-any-idea-this-existed-astronomers-discover-hidden-river-of-gas-flowing-to-the-milky-ways-heart2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has identified a vast cloud of gas and dust in an underexplored part of the Milky Way. This structure, cl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has identified a vast cloud of gas and dust in an underexplored part of the Milky Way. This structure, cl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220063","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}