{"id":483645,"date":"2018-06-06T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3d7dec70f84245240f59348895561f60"},"modified":"2018-06-06T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:35:15","slug":"how-do-you-weigh-a-galaxy-especially-the-one-youre-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=483645","title":{"rendered":"How do you weigh a galaxy? Especially the one you&#8217;re in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique for estimating the mass of galaxies promises more reliable results, especially when applied to large datasets generated by current and future surveys, according to a research team led by Ekta Patel at the University of Arizona. Published in the Astrophysical Journal, the study is the first to combine the observed full three-dimensional motions of several of the Milky Way&#8217;s satellite galaxies with extensive computer simulations to obtain a high-accuracy estimate for the mass of our home galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique for estimating the mass of galaxies promises more reliable results, especially when applied to large datasets generated by current and future surveys, according to a research team led by Ekta Patel at the University of Arizona. Publishe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483646,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483645\/revisions\/483646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}