{"id":92684,"date":"2019-06-26T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/it-took-centuries-but-we-now-know-the-size-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2019-06-26T00:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:03:53","slug":"it-took-centuries-but-we-now-know-the-size-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/it-took-centuries-but-we-now-know-the-size-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"It took centuries, but we now know the size of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/it-took-centuries-but-we-now-know-the-size-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can never see these more distant regions. Still, the observable Universe alone should be big enough for most people. Indeed, for scientists like Casey and Sheth, it remains a constant source of fascination.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> We\u2019re not even at the centre of our Solar System or at the centre of our galaxy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEverything that we\u2019ve learned about the Universe \u2013 how big it is, all the amazing objects that are in it \u2013 we do that simply by collecting these photons of light that have travelled millions and millions of light years only to come and die on our detectors, our cameras or radio telescopes,\u201d says Sheth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can never see these more distant regions. Still, the observable Universe alone should be big enough for most people. Indeed, for scientists like Casey and Sheth, it remains a constant source of fascination. We\u2019re not even at the centre of our Solar System or at the centre of our galaxy \u201cEverything that we\u2019ve learned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92684","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=92684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}