{"id":223884,"date":"2025-10-24T04:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/astronomers-expose-co-dark-molecular-gas-previously-invisible-to-telescopes"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:18:36","slug":"astronomers-expose-co-dark-molecular-gas-previously-invisible-to-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/astronomers-expose-co-dark-molecular-gas-previously-invisible-to-telescopes","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers expose CO-dark molecular gas, previously invisible to telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-expose-co-dark-molecular-gas-previously-invisible-to-telescopes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as CO-dark molecular gas, in one of our Milky Way\u2019s most active star-forming neighborhoods, Cygnus X. Their findings, using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), are providing crucial new clues about how stars formed in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as CO-dark molecular gas, in one of our Milky Way\u2019s most active star-forming neighborhoods, Cygnus X. Their findings, using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), are providing crucial new clues about how stars formed in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223884","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=223884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}