{"id":33978,"date":"2017-01-31T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/milky-way-galaxy-is-being-pushed-across-the-universe"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:56:32","slug":"milky-way-galaxy-is-being-pushed-across-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/milky-way-galaxy-is-being-pushed-across-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way galaxy is being pushed across the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/milky-way-galaxy-is-being-pushed-across-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered Dipole Repeller is actually helping our galaxy on its journey across the expanding universe.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have known that the galaxy was moving at a relative speed for the past 30 years, but they didn\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we find an emptiness in exactly the opposite direction, which provides a \u2018push\u2019 in the sense of a lack of pull,\u201d said Brent Tully, one of the study authors and an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu. \u201cIn a tug-of-war, if there are more people at one end, then the flow will be toward them and away from the weaker side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/31\/world\/milky-way-dipole-repeller-space-trnd\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/31\/world\/milky-way-dipole-repelle...index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered Dipole Repeller is actually helping our galaxy on its journey across the expanding universe. Researchers have known that the galaxy was moving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33978","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49232,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33978\/revisions\/49232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}