{"id":46430,"date":"2026-08-19T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=46430"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:21:10","slug":"ancient-milky-way-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=46430","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Milky Way Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This artist\u2019s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA\u2019s\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope, recently published in the journal\u00a0Nature Astronomy, shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy\u2019s history 1.8 billion years further back in time than before.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/ancient-milky-way-merger\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.nasa.gov<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This artist\u2019s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA\u2019s\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope, recently published in the journal\u00a0Nature Astronomy, shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}