{"id":3923998,"date":"2026-02-18T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hubble-identifies-a-near-invisible-galaxy-that-may-be-99-dark-matter\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:02:16","slug":"hubble-identifies-a-near-invisible-galaxy-that-may-be-99-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hubble-identifies-a-near-invisible-galaxy-that-may-be-99-dark-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble identifies a near-invisible galaxy that may be 99% dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible\u2014low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by dark matter and containing only a sparse scattering of faint stars.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-hubble-invisible-galaxy-dark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies remains nearly invisible\u2014low-surface-brightness galaxies dominated by dark matter and containing only a sparse scattering of faint stars. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}