{"id":89543,"date":"2019-04-15T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-take-first-high-resolution-look-at-huge-star-forming-region-of-milky-way"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:42:36","slug":"astronomers-take-first-high-resolution-look-at-huge-star-forming-region-of-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-take-first-high-resolution-look-at-huge-star-forming-region-of-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers take first, high-resolution look at huge star-forming region of Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-take-first-high-resolution-look-at-huge-star-forming-region-of-milky-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from the United States and South Korea have made the first high-resolution, radio telescope observations of the molecular clouds within a massive star-forming region of the outer Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis region is behind a nearby cloud of dust and gas,\u201d said Charles Kerton, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University and a member of the study team. \u201cThe cloud blocks the light and so we have to use infrared or radio observations to study it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Milky Way region is called CTB 102. It\u2019s about 14,000 light years from Earth. It\u2019s classified as an HII region, meaning it contains clouds of ionized\u2014charged\u2014hydrogen atoms. And, because of its distance from Earth and the dust and gas in between, it has been difficult to study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-astronomers-high-resolution-huge-star-forming-region.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the United States and South Korea have made the first high-resolution, radio telescope observations of the molecular clouds within a massive star-forming region of the outer Milky Way. \u201cThis region is behind a nearby cloud of dust and gas,\u201d said Charles Kerton, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89543","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}