{"id":86160,"date":"2018-12-28T03:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T11:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/astronomers-have-begun-mapping-the-structure-of-the-far-side-of-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2018-12-28T03:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T11:22:55","slug":"astronomers-have-begun-mapping-the-structure-of-the-far-side-of-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/astronomers-have-begun-mapping-the-structure-of-the-far-side-of-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers have begun mapping the structure of the far side of the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-begun-mapping-the-structure-of-the-far-side-of-the-milky-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This particular region is located over 66,000 light years from Earth and at on opposite side of the Milky Way, relative to our Solar System. The previous record for a parallax measurement was about 36,000 light-years, roughly 11,000 light years farther than the distance between our Solar System and the center of our galaxy. As Sanna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de\/pressreleases\/2017\/9\">explained<\/a>, this accomplishment in radio astronomy will enable surveys that reach much farther than previous ones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMost of the stars and gas in our Galaxy are within this newly-measured distance from the Sun. With the VLBA, we now have the capability to measure enough distances to accurately trace the Galaxy\u2019s spiral arms and learn their true shapes.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hundreds of star-forming regions exist within the Milky Way. But as Karl Menten \u2013 a member of the MPIfR and a co-author on the study \u2013 explained, this study was significant because of where this one is located. \u201cSo we have plenty of \u2018mileposts\u2019 to use for our mapping project,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this one is special: Looking all the way through the Milky Way, past its center, way out into the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/astronomers-have-begun-mapping-the-structure-of-the-far-side-of-the-milky-way\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/astronomers-have-begun-mapping-the-stru...-milky-way<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This particular region is located over 66,000 light years from Earth and at on opposite side of the Milky Way, relative to our Solar System. The previous record for a parallax measurement was about 36,000 light-years, roughly 11,000 light years farther than the distance between our Solar System and the center of our galaxy. As [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86160","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=86160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}