{"id":83145,"date":"2018-09-29T08:43:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/there-is-a-rogue-group-of-stars-behaving-very-suspiciously-in-the-milky-ways-disk"},"modified":"2018-09-29T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T15:43:06","slug":"there-is-a-rogue-group-of-stars-behaving-very-suspiciously-in-the-milky-ways-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/there-is-a-rogue-group-of-stars-behaving-very-suspiciously-in-the-milky-ways-disk","title":{"rendered":"There Is a Rogue Group of Stars Behaving Very Suspiciously in the Milky Way\u2019s Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Milky Way has a violent past. When it isn\u2019t swallowing renegade sausage galaxies<\/a>, it seems to be waging endless games of interstellar tug-of-war with its nearest galactic neighbors \u2014 and not always winning. According to a new study published Sept. 19 in the journal Nature<\/a>, one such encounter ended with a cosmic wound to the Milky Way\u2019s disk that still hasn\u2019t fully healed, 300 million years later.<\/p>\n

That wound, researchers say, is visible in a cluster of several million stars that are not behaving as they should be. While still rotating around the Milky Way\u2019s galactic center<\/a>, these rogue stars also orbit around one another in a wobbly, spiral pattern that has only become more tangled over the past eon. [Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have observed shapes. [of star clusters] with different morphologies, such as a spiral similar to a snail\u2019s shell,\u201d lead study author Teresa Antoja, a researcher at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) at the University of Barcelona, said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThese substructures allow us to conclude that the disk of our galaxy suffered an important gravitational disturbance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Milky Way has a violent past. When it isn\u2019t swallowing renegade sausage galaxies, it seems to be waging endless games of interstellar tug-of-war with its nearest galactic neighbors \u2014 and not always winning. According to a new study published Sept. 19 in the journal Nature, one such encounter ended with a cosmic wound to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83145","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}