{"id":771459,"date":"2023-11-08T14:54:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771459"},"modified":"2023-11-08T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:54:03","slug":"dwarf-galaxies-stripped-of-stars-prove-to-be-the-missing-link-in-the-formation-of-rare-ultra-compact-dwarf-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771459","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf galaxies stripped of stars prove to be the missing link in the formation of rare ultra-compact dwarf galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one-half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF&#8217;s NOIRLab, have captured the eroding remains of more than 100 dwarf galaxies as they transition into ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, objects with masses much greater than star clusters yet much smaller than dwarf galaxies. These findings confirm that many ultra-compact dwarf galaxies are likely the fossil remains of normal dwarf galaxies that have been stripped of their outer layers.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-11-dwarf-galaxies-stars-link-formation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dwarf galaxies stripped of stars prove to be the missing link in the formation of rare ultra-compact dwarf galaxies<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one-half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF&#8217;s NOIRLab, have captured the eroding remains of more than 100 dwarf galaxies as they transition&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-771459","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\/771459","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=771459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771459\/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=771459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}