{"id":642357,"date":"2020-01-07T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642357"},"modified":"2020-01-07T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:00:01","slug":"new-map-of-milky-way-reveals-giant-wave-of-stellar-nurseries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642357","title":{"rendered":"New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure\u2014the largest ever seen in our galaxy\u2014made up of interconnected stellar nurseries. Dubbed the &#8220;Radcliffe wave&#8221; in honor of the collaboration&#8217;s home base, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the discovery transforms a 150-year-old vision of nearby stellar nurseries as an expanding ring into one featuring an undulating, star-forming filament that reaches trillions of miles above and below the galactic disk.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-01-milky-reveals-giant-stellar-nurseries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure\u2014the largest ever seen in our galaxy\u2014made up of interconnected stellar nurseries. Dubbed the &#8220;Radcliffe wave&#8221; in honor of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642357","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642357\/revisions"}],"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=642357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}