{"id":3925621,"date":"2026-04-23T21:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/milky-ways-little-cousins-may-hold-clues-about-infant-universe\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:02:02","slug":"milky-ways-little-cousins-may-hold-clues-about-infant-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/milky-ways-little-cousins-may-hold-clues-about-infant-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way&#8217;s &#8216;little cousins&#8217; may hold clues about infant universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies\u2014tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way\u2014have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new study published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society uses an unprecedented set of simulations to show just how powerfully these faint systems can reflect the conditions of the early universe and tell us why some galaxies grew and others did not.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-milky-cousins-clues-infant-universe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies\u2014tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way\u2014have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new study published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society uses an unprecedented set of simulations to show just how powerfully these faint systems can reflect the conditions of the early universe and tell us why [&#8230;]<\/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-3925621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925621","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=3925621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}