{"id":540273,"date":"2018-10-31T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8eb4bcfff2d341cc028c6c25c2c476d8"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:00:16","slug":"astronomers-discover-the-giant-that-shaped-the-early-days-of-our-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=540273","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover the giant that shaped the early days of our Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way merged with a large galaxy. The stars from this partner, named Gaia-Enceladus, make up most of the Milky Way&#8217;s halo and also shaped its thick disk, giving it its inflated form. A description of this mega-merger, discovered by an international team led by University of Groningen astronomer Amina Helmi, is now published in the scientific journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way merged with a large galaxy. The stars from this partner, named Gaia-Enceladus, make up most of the Milky Way&#8217;s halo and also shaped its thick disk, giving it its inflated form. A description of this mega-merger,&#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-540273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540273","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=540273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540274,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540273\/revisions\/540274"}],"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=540273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}