{"id":85300,"date":"2019-07-25T17:44:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8461"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:14:32","slug":"milky-ways-violent-birth-decoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/milky-ways-violent-birth-decoded\/","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way\u2019s violent birth decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According\nto scientists, Milky Way was shaped in its present form as a result of\ncollision with another smaller galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus, 10 billion years\nago. <\/li><li>The\nstudy has been based on data from the Gaia space observatory- a space\nobservatory of the European Space Agency (ESA). Gaia seeks to map the positions\nof more than 1 billion stars to the highest precision<\/li><li>The\nmerger of the Milky Way and Gaia-Enceladus increased Milky Way\u2019s mass by about\na quarter and triggered a period of accelerated star formation which lasted for\n2 to 4 billion years.<\/li><li>Galaxies\nof all types began to form relatively soon after the Big Bang explosion. The\nBig Bang explosion marked the beginning of the universe some 13.8 billion years\nago. <\/li><li>However,\nthe galaxies were relatively smaller that time and subsequent galactic mergers\nhave given galaxies their present configuration.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to scientists, Milky Way was shaped in its present form as a result of collision with another smaller galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus, 10 billion years ago. The study has been based on data from the Gaia space observatory- a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA). Gaia seeks to map the positions of more&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/milky-ways-violent-birth-decoded\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Milky Way\u2019s violent birth decoded<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704704029},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}