{"id":22616,"date":"2016-02-22T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T01:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/astronomers-discover-300000-light-year-long-gas-tail-stretching-from-galaxy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:09:21","slug":"astronomers-discover-300000-light-year-long-gas-tail-stretching-from-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/astronomers-discover-300000-light-year-long-gas-tail-stretching-from-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover 300,000-light-year-long gas tail stretching from galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-300000-light-year-long-gas-tail-stretching-from-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found an extraordinary trail of gas greater than 300,000 light years across originating from a nearby galaxy called NGC 4569, according to a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aanda.org\/articles\/aa\/abs\/2016\/03\/aa27795-15\/aa27795-15.html\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a><\/strong> in <em>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The tail is comprised of hydrogen gas, the material new stars are born from, and is five times longer than the galaxy itself.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/space\/1113412728\/astronomers-discover-300000-light-year-long-gas-tail-stretching-from-galaxy-022216\/\">http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/space\/1113412728\/astronomers-di...xy-022216\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found an extraordinary trail of gas greater than 300,000 light years across originating from a nearby galaxy called NGC 4569, according to a report in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics. The tail is comprised of hydrogen gas, the material new stars are born from, and is five times longer than the galaxy itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68289,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616\/revisions\/68289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}