{"id":1196,"date":"2009-01-06T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2009-01-06T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T18:49:52","slug":"milky-way-put-on-weight-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1196","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way Put On Weight this Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/01\/milkyway.html\">Milky Way 50 Percent Larger, Astronomers Discover<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[N]ew measurements of how quickly our galaxy is rotating have led a team of Harvard astrophysicists to conclude that our galaxy is 50 percent more massive than previously thought, and likely does have four arms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should certainly think of the Milky Way no longer as the little sister of the local group,&#8221; said Mark Reid of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. &#8220;We should think of the Milky Way and Andromeda as more like fraternal twins.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milky Way 50 Percent Larger, Astronomers Discover [N]ew measurements of how quickly our galaxy is rotating have led a team of Harvard astrophysicists to conclude that our galaxy is 50 percent more massive than previously thought, and likely does have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1196\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}