{"id":3928585,"date":"2026-10-25T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/milky-ways-disk-grew-upside-down-with-younger-stars-forming-in-ever-thinner-layers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:04:02","slug":"milky-ways-disk-grew-upside-down-with-younger-stars-forming-in-ever-thinner-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/milky-ways-disk-grew-upside-down-with-younger-stars-forming-in-ever-thinner-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way&#8217;s disk grew &#8216;upside down,&#8217; with younger stars forming in ever-thinner layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, our galaxy has other physical characteristics. It&#8217;s divided into a galactic bulge, a galactic disk and a galactic halo.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-milky-disk-grew-upside-younger.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, our galaxy has other physical characteristics. It&#8217;s divided into a galactic bulge, a galactic disk and a galactic halo. <\/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-3928585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928585","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=3928585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}