{"id":149,"date":"2019-08-29T22:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T22:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/?p=149"},"modified":"2019-08-29T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T22:52:13","slug":"astronomers-baffled-by-cosmic-mountain-ranges-jutting-through-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/astronomers-baffled-by-cosmic-mountain-ranges-jutting-through-the-milky-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Baffled by &#8216;Cosmic Mountain Ranges&#8217; Jutting Through the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/author\/mara-johnson-groh\">Mara Johnson-Groh<\/a>, Live Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>They have very little idea how these stunning geographic features form.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To us, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65896-photos-dark-sky-parks.html\">night sky<\/a>&nbsp;may look like a random splattering of stars, but astronomers are learning that in some regions of our galaxy, stars have clumped into features that resemble ones on Earth \u2014 streams, waves, arches and mountain ridges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/37706-what-is-plate-tectonics.html\">Tectonic activity<\/a>\u00a0creates Earth&#8217;s wide array of features, but scientists aren&#8217;t exactly sure what&#8217;s making those stellar mimics in the Milky Way. Now, researchers are testing for a culprit, including forces coming from outside of our galaxy. The real suspect, though, might just be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.livescience.com\/~r\/spaceheadlines\/~3\/1ryr8eiUBtw\/local-void-map-around-milky-way.html\">the Milky Way<\/a>\u00a0itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/milky-way-has-geographic-features.html\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Mara Johnson-Groh, Live Science They have very little idea how these stunning geographic features form. To us, the&nbsp;night sky&nbsp;may look like a random splattering of stars, but astronomers are learning that in some regions of our galaxy, stars have clumped into features that resemble ones on Earth \u2014 streams, waves, arches and mountain ridges.&nbsp; Tectonic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambiguouslyblonde.com\/files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}