{"id":70251,"date":"2017-06-07T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/our-galaxy-exists-in-a-cosmic-void-study-shows"},"modified":"2017-06-07T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:22:30","slug":"our-galaxy-exists-in-a-cosmic-void-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/our-galaxy-exists-in-a-cosmic-void-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Our galaxy exists in a cosmic void, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-galaxy-exists-in-a-cosmic-void-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 6 (UPI) \u2014 Our galaxy and its neighbors exist in a sort of cosmic void, research suggests. The latest analysis supports the conclusion of a 2013 study which showed the Milky Way exists in a region of the universe sparsely populated by galaxies, stars and planets.<\/p>\n<p>The new research \u2014 presented this week at the annual American Astronomical Society meeting \u2014 also helps bridge the divide between astronomers torn by competing measurements of the Hubble Constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding.<\/p>\n<p>Different groups of astronomers have developed different techniques for measuring the Hubble Constant, with each method yielding different numbers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/06\/06\/Our-galaxy-exists-in-a-cosmic-void-study-shows\/8631496778598\/\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/06\/06\/Our-galaxy-exists...496778598\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 6 (UPI) \u2014 Our galaxy and its neighbors exist in a sort of cosmic void, research suggests. The latest analysis supports the conclusion of a 2013 study which showed the Milky Way exists in a region of the universe sparsely populated by galaxies, stars and planets. The new research \u2014 presented this week at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70251","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}