{"id":98353,"date":"2019-11-10T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nasa-scientist-shows-dinosaurs-roamed-earth-on-the-other-side-of-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2019-11-10T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:22:44","slug":"nasa-scientist-shows-dinosaurs-roamed-earth-on-the-other-side-of-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nasa-scientist-shows-dinosaurs-roamed-earth-on-the-other-side-of-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"NASA Scientist Shows Dinosaurs Roamed Earth on The Other Side of The Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-scientist-shows-dinosaurs-roamed-earth-on-the-other-side-of-the-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the planet was on a completely different side of the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>A new animation by NASA scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aussiastronomer\">Jessie Christiansen<\/a> shows just how long the dinosaurs\u2019 reign lasted, and how short the era of humans has been in comparison, by tracing our solar system\u2019s movement through the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>Our Sun orbits the galaxy\u2019s centre, completing its rotation every 250 million years or so. So Christiansen\u2019s animation shows that last time our Solar System was at its current point in the galaxy, the Triassic Period was in full swing and dinosaurs were just beginning to emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the planet was on a completely different side of the galaxy. A new animation by NASA scientist Jessie Christiansen shows just how long the dinosaurs\u2019 reign lasted, and how short the era of humans has been in comparison, by tracing our solar system\u2019s movement through the Milky Way. Our Sun [\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-98353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98353","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=98353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}