{"id":22846,"date":"2016-02-27T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/astronomers-create-largest-ever-catalog-of-cosmic-voids"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:37","slug":"astronomers-create-largest-ever-catalog-of-cosmic-voids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/astronomers-create-largest-ever-catalog-of-cosmic-voids","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Create Largest-Ever Catalog Of Cosmic Voids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-create-largest-ever-catalog-of-cosmic-voids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We might not think it, but we live in a pretty crowded part of the universe. But more than half our cosmos is made up of largely empty voids where there\u2019s virtually nothing for hundreds of millions of light years of spacetime. At great distances, we still aren\u2019t sensitive to dwarf galaxies that may lie within such voids. But even in the midst of such emptiness, these voids do have a few luminous elliptical galaxies not unlike the one seen here. Kudos to the team that crafted this new catalog map of these empty spots in our cosmos.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Astronomers have released the largest and most extensive catalog of cosmic voids ever generated \u2014 extending out some 8 billion light years in an area covering a quarter of the sky, mostly observable from the Northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/02\/27\/astronomers-create-largest-ever-catalog-of-cosmic-voids\/#6a60eef07acc\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/02\/27\/astrono...60eef07acc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We might not think it, but we live in a pretty crowded part of the universe. But more than half our cosmos is made up of largely empty voids where there\u2019s virtually nothing for hundreds of millions of light years of spacetime. At great distances, we still aren\u2019t sensitive to dwarf galaxies that may lie [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22846","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68216,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22846\/revisions\/68216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}