{"id":3927007,"date":"2026-07-15T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/spiral-arms-and-bars-are-galactic-fuel-pumps-for-star-formation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:04:39","slug":"spiral-arms-and-bars-are-galactic-fuel-pumps-for-star-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/spiral-arms-and-bars-are-galactic-fuel-pumps-for-star-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiral arms and bars are galactic fuel pumps for star formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Peak star formation took place during cosmic noon, between 2\u20133 billion years after the Big Bang. The star formation rate (SFR) back then was up to 100 times greater than it is today. For the SFR to be so high, gas had to move through galaxies efficiently.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-spiral-arms-bars-galactic-fuel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak star formation took place during cosmic noon, between 2\u20133 billion years after the Big Bang. The star formation rate (SFR) back then was up to 100 times greater than it is today. For the SFR to be so high, gas had to move through galaxies efficiently. <\/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-3927007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}