{"id":224607,"date":"2025-11-06T01:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/gaia-discovers-our-galaxys-great-wave"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:13:05","slug":"gaia-discovers-our-galaxys-great-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/gaia-discovers-our-galaxys-great-wave","title":{"rendered":"Gaia discovers our galaxy\u2019s great wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gaia-discovers-our-galaxys-great-wave2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224607","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=224607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}