{"id":3927973,"date":"2026-09-16T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nearly-50-ghost-galaxies-emerge-around-three-hosts-challenging-dwarf-galaxy-counts\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:00:37","slug":"nearly-50-ghost-galaxies-emerge-around-three-hosts-challenging-dwarf-galaxy-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nearly-50-ghost-galaxies-emerge-around-three-hosts-challenging-dwarf-galaxy-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 50 &#8216;ghost galaxies&#8217; emerge around three hosts, challenging dwarf galaxy counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dwarf galaxies\u2014with a mass equal to about a billion suns, but often considerably less\u2014are the most abundant in the universe. However, because of their low luminosity, they are very difficult to detect. They have mostly been discovered in the vicinity of the Milky Way, in what is called the Local Group, but also, and in large quantities, at greater distances, where current instrumentation cannot distinguish individual stars.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-ghost-galaxies-emerge-hosts-dwarf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwarf galaxies\u2014with a mass equal to about a billion suns, but often considerably less\u2014are the most abundant in the universe. However, because of their low luminosity, they are very difficult to detect. They have mostly been discovered in the vicinity of the Milky Way, in what is called the Local Group, but also, and in [&#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-3927973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927973","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=3927973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}