{"id":647967,"date":"2020-03-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647967"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:00:00","slug":"milky-ways-warp-caused-by-galactic-collision-gaia-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647967","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way\u2019s warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Milky_Way_warp_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"The warped disc of our galaxy, the Milky Way.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA\u2019s star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing collision with another, smaller, galaxy, which sends ripples through the galactic disc like a rock thrown into water.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Gaia\/Milky_Way_s_warp_caused_by_galactic_collision_Gaia_suggests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Milky Way\u2019s warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA\u2019s star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing collision with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647968,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647967","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=647967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/647968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}