{"id":651393,"date":"2020-04-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=651393"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:00:00","slug":"rethinking-cosmology-universe-expansion-may-not-be-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=651393","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking cosmology: Universe expansion may not be uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cosmic_expansion_measured_across_the_sky_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the rate of the expansion of the Universe in different directions across the sky based on data from ESA's XMM-Newton, NASA's Chandra and the German-led ROSAT X-ray observatories\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have assumed for decades that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. A new study based on data from ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton, NASA\u2019s Chandra and the German-led ROSAT X-ray observatories suggests this key premise of cosmology might be wrong.<\/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\/Rethinking_cosmology_Universe_expansion_may_not_be_uniform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Rethinking cosmology: Universe expansion may not be uniform<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have assumed for decades that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. A new study based on data from ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton, NASA\u2019s Chandra and the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651394,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651393","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\/651393","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=651393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/651394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}