{"id":87300,"date":"2019-02-01T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/astronomers-accidentally-discover-a-hidden-galaxy-right-next-door"},"modified":"2019-02-01T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:02:22","slug":"astronomers-accidentally-discover-a-hidden-galaxy-right-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/astronomers-accidentally-discover-a-hidden-galaxy-right-next-door","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Accidentally Discover a Hidden Galaxy Right Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-accidentally-discover-a-hidden-galaxy-right-next-door2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While inspecting a known globular cluster, a team of astronomers began to notice that some of its stars didn\u2019t seem to belong. Investigating further, they realized the anomalous stars were part of a nearby galaxy\u2014one previously unknown to us.<\/p>\n<p>Science works in mysterious ways.<\/p>\n<p>One moment you\u2019re investigating a globular cluster, and the next you\u2019re unexpectedly writing a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnrasl\/article\/484\/1\/L54\/5288002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research paper<\/a> about something else entirely, namely the discovery of previously unknown dwarf spheroidal galaxy. But that\u2019s how it goes sometimes, and the authors of the new study, published this week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/astronomers-accidentally-discover-a-hidden-galaxy-right-1832262574\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/astronomers-accidentally-discover-a-hidd...1832262574<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While inspecting a known globular cluster, a team of astronomers began to notice that some of its stars didn\u2019t seem to belong. Investigating further, they realized the anomalous stars were part of a nearby galaxy\u2014one previously unknown to us. Science works in mysterious ways. One moment you\u2019re investigating a globular cluster, and the next you\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87300","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=87300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}