{"id":230486,"date":"2026-02-04T05:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/astronomers-reveal-the-hidden-magnetic-skeleton-of-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:21:30","slug":"astronomers-reveal-the-hidden-magnetic-skeleton-of-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/astronomers-reveal-the-hidden-magnetic-skeleton-of-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Reveal the Hidden Magnetic Skeleton of the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-reveal-the-hidden-magnetic-skeleton-of-the-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way\u2019s most important features cannot be seen with ordinary light. Dr. Jo-Anne Brown, PhD, is working to chart one of those hidden ingredients: the galaxy\u2019s magnetic field, a vast structure that can influence how gas moves, where stars form, and how cosmic particles travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a magnetic field, the galaxy would collapse in on itself due to gravity,\u201d says Brown, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to know what the magnetic field of the galaxy looks like now, so we can create accurate models that predict how it will evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way\u2019s most important features cannot be seen with ordinary light. Dr. Jo-Anne Brown, PhD, is working to chart one of those hidden ingredients: the galaxy\u2019s magnetic field, a vast structure that can influence how gas moves, where stars form, and how cosmic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230486","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=230486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}