{"id":3927534,"date":"2026-08-17T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hubble-solves-merger-mystery-from-milky-ways-early-years\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:02:33","slug":"hubble-solves-merger-mystery-from-milky-ways-early-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hubble-solves-merger-mystery-from-milky-ways-early-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble solves merger mystery from Milky Way&#8217;s early years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy&#8217;s history 1.8 billion years farther back in time than before. The results are published in the journal Nature Astronomy.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-hubble-merger-mystery-milky-early.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy&#8217;s history 1.8 [&#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-3927534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927534","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=3927534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}