{"id":867,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"the-milky-way-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"The Milky Way Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Milky Way Galaxy <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our Cosmic Home<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/Spiral-galaxy.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"261\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our entire cosmos contains over <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-reveals-observable-universe-contains-10-times-more-galaxies-than-previously-thought\/\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">2000 billion<\/span><\/a> galaxies. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 333px; height: 315px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/mw.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our Milky Way is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barred_spiral_galaxy\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">barred spiral galaxy<\/span><\/span><\/a>. This is a spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_formation#Stellar_nurseries\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">stellar nursery<\/span><\/a>, which is saturated with stars. Bars can affect the motions of its spiral arms, its stars and interstellar gas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/MW-halo.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"248\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>The thin disc is 1K LY thick. The thick disc varies from 4K to 16K LY.<br \/>\nHere the velocity of the stars is higher than in the thin disc.<br \/>\nThe bulge diameter is 16K LY. It contains about 10 Billion old stars.<br \/>\nThe Halo&#8217;s diameter is about 300.000 LY.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/MW-disc.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"112\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milky_Way\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Milky Way Galaxy<\/span><\/a> is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virgo_Supercluster\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Virgo super cluster<\/span><\/a>, that comprises of over 5,000 galaxies, which together are about 100 million light-years across.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Virgo-cluster-1000's-galaxies.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"185\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Galaxies are not randomly distributed in space; they swarm together, by gravity, to form groups and clusters. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/em7f8f-a3dA?si=nAbgyFZ7ird8UtmK\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Milky Way is a member of the Local Group, which is part of the Virgo Cluster, which in turn is part of the 100,000-galaxy-strong Laniakea Supercluster.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uenmtYueD1Q\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3BHDUhX68hs\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Our Galaxy<\/span><\/a> and its neighbors are flying at &asymp;600 km\/sec in the  direction of the constellation Hydra, as well as racing within a larger cluster of galaxies towards  the constellation Virgo at &asymp;300 km\/s. In total, our galaxy is flying through the universe at about 1,000 km\/sec. Speed of Light is 300.000 km\/sec. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/colliding-galaxies.JPG\" width=\"190\" height=\"168\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/Distorted-galaxy-after-collision(1).jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Milky Way, &asymp;13 Billion years old, and the Andromeda Galaxy, together containing over one Trillion stars, will be merging in about 3 Billion years. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0RsnnB8rt9A\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Andromeda spiral galaxy<\/span><\/a> is 150.000 LY across:<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Hubble-1Tstars-Andromeda.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"119\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">They belong to a group of 50 closely bound galaxies known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_Group\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Local Galactic Group<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/Local_Galactic_Group.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Ever since astronomers first laid their eyes on the sparkling spiral arms of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, they have wondered what processes might drive the evolution of these massive, star-studded structures. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Presumably, those same processes are why we see such a stunning diversity of galactic neighborhoods in the observable universe, which contains an estimated 2T galaxies with unique sizes, shapes and compositions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Vrtx-flare-MW-blck-hole-ctr.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"186\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Flares in the vortex center of the MW<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">So, astronomers WW called for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to conduct a multi-epoch, large-area, multi-wavelength survey of the Milky Way&rsquo;s innermost regions. Decoding the dynamics of the Milky Way&#8217;s heart, or <a href=\"?p=1157\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Galactic Center<\/span><\/a> (GC), should shed light on what happens in many other galaxies in our universe, as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Scientists wonder, what role does the supermassive black hole sitting in our galaxy&#8217;s center, Sagittarius A*, play in its evolution? Why is our galaxy&#8217;s star formation slower than it should be in cold, dark molecular clouds in the area? How do our galaxy&#8217;s central star clusters emerge in the first place?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/CTR-MW-galaxy.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"162\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our galaxy contains 200-400 billion stars that contain over 200 billion planets. However, our galaxy might contain more roque planets than stars. A roque planet has left a certain solar system and possibly trillions of them race through the MW like a comet, w\/o a home-star. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Some of these cosmic nomads are bigger than Jupiter, and got ejected from their solar systems through gravitational encounters. It is like a cosmic pin-ball machine where planets get flung into the darkness of interstellar space.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It is a spiral galaxy with a bulge, a disk, and a halo. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The halo and central bright bulge contain old stars and the disk is filled with gas, dust, and young stars. The spiraling arms begin in the center and form a flat disc. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">One of the biggest unresolved questions about the Milky Way surrounds how its black hole, Sgr. A*, affected our home galaxy&#8217;s evolution. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Astronomers already know that massive, galactic black holes like this one grow mostly by feeding on gas that surrounds the holes themselves in plate-like shapes known as accretion disks. Thus, because the presence of such gas is also a necessary ingredient for star formation, its reasonable to infer a relationship between the growth history of Sgr A*, and the rate of star formation in the Galactic Center.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Active black holes emit large amounts of electromagnetic radiation, but Sgr A* appears to be relatively quiet on this front, suggesting it isn&#8217;t consuming large volumes of material. Astronomers refer to Sgr A* as a &#8216;quiescent&#8217; black hole, which means it is basically dormant<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/N-S-pole%20EMFs%20in%20Galaxy.JPG\" width=\"362\" height=\"212\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Milky Way in the center of its double bowl N-S Magnetic Fields<br \/>\nGalaxies are impelled apart by N-N or S-S Magnetic Force Fields<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Iron%20balls%20between%20bowles.JPG\" width=\"352\" height=\"235\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Balls form rings around center balls between N &amp; S pole bowls<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This galactic disc, about 100,000 light-years across, seems to rotate like a &#8216;flat plate to which all stars are glued&#8217; around its hollow center, by the &quot;gravity of the <a href=\"?p=234\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">dark matter<\/span><\/a> mass (containing more than 99% of all the galactic mass)&quot;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/Hunab-suckin-dwarfGal.JPG\" width=\"340\" height=\"207\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">MW core sucking in dying stars + orbiting dwarf galaxies<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our Galactic Center is full of stars. It&#8217;s so dense, in fact, that smaller telescopes struggle to tell one star from  another. Plus, our view of the Galactic Center from Earth is obstructed by large clouds of dust.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The JWST&#8217;s Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam) and its system of filters, which allow astronomers to separate spectra of infrared light into wavelengths emitted by specific materials, makes the observatory uniquely capable of peering through these dense regions of dust. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/MW-JWST-ctr--of-star%20formation.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"184\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">To the unaided eye, those regions just look like dark voids because we can only see visible light wavelengths, blocked by those dust veils. Infrared wavelengths, however, can cross over to the other side, ultimately hitting the JWST&#8217;s detectors. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The JWST is also capable of making observations in longer wavelengths of infrared light, which it uses to observe galaxies in the early universe. The light from these galaxies has stretched, or &quot;redshifted&quot; due to the continued expansion of the universe, where their light waves are moving towards the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum (where longer wavelengths are categorized). Infrared is longer in wavelength and lower in energy than visible light, making it invisible to humans.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/black%20holes%20and%20their%20neutron%20stars%20orbiting%20around%20the%20central%20black%20hole.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Galactic Center contains many stars of all masses. It is the only galactic core we can observe where each star can be investigated individually. And the more we learn about our galaxy, the more we will learn about how other galaxies evolve throughout the cosmos.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2022%20pics\/MW-Ctr.gif\" width=\"333\" height=\"236\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Neutron star twins orbiting around the MW core<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our galactic center seems to be operated by twin-forces, one pulling in stars that died, and the other pushing out &#8216;newborn&#8217; stars, often as Twins. The Twin-center wormhole of one galactic plane might be <a href=\"?p=644\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">interdimensionally connected<\/span><\/a> to the Twin-center wormhole of another galactic plane.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ip3YHk0gu0I\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>The APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) done in sub-mm wavelengths, which is between IR light and radio waves. This allows us to see all the near 0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>&deg;<strong style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">K gas and dust in the galactic plane as bright red blotches. This area typically gives birth to new stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our Sun is a young star of 5 billion years. Rollercoaster riding inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gwhx58Wa-74&amp;ab_channel=LearntheSky\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">the Orion arm<\/span><\/a>, at &asymp; 200 km\/sec, it takes <a href=\"?p=829\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">our entire solar system<\/span><\/a> &asymp; 250 million years to go around the Galaxy&rsquo;s Bulge, &asymp; 26.000 light-years away. Viewed from earth, this center is located just beyond the border of Sagittarius and Scorpio, and this bulge is about 13.000 light-years thick.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The winds emanating from our Sun slam into a magnetized medium of charged particles, atoms, and galactic dust<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">. Thus, they continuously inflate a giant bubble in interstellar space called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heliosphere\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Heliosphere<\/span><\/a> in which the Sun and its planets reside:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2012%20pics\/heliosphere.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Around 225 million years ago, the earth&#8217;s landmass started to split up in what we know now as the 5 continents. Thus, one &quot;Galactic Year &quot; has passed since then.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Star%20and%20its%20planet.gif\" width=\"329\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Every day our planet appears to make one full spin around its axle, with a surface speed at the equator of 1666 km\/hr. The moon cycles around our planet such that we see a full moon every 28 days. From any position on earth it takes about 18 years and 7 months for the sun and the moon to appear in the same tri-angular location again. Major events in our lives are often marked by 1, 2, or 3 times this period.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4cgQNUhtmHM\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Center point between Earth and Venus orbiting around the Sun<br \/>\nfollows a 5 petal pentagonal harmonic shape<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Our planet races around the fast moving sun at <\/span><\/span>&asymp; <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">30 km\/sec, and thus moves in a complex <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o6jBK1ZV-qs\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">coil-like motion<\/span><\/a> in space, creating the illusion of a 365 day cycle around it, and is now entering into an entirely different magnetic energy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2019%20pics\/MW+Trango-Twrs-Pakistan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Milky Way center from high-up in the mountains of China<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Jesus-C-MW.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"204\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=1094\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">The Cosmic Sustainer<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/cosmic-sustainer-snake-dragon.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"142\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2026-pics\/galaxy-wormhole.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=958\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milky Way Galaxy Our Cosmic Home Our entire cosmos contains over 2000 billion galaxies. Our Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy. This is a spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure, a stellar nursery, which is saturated with stars. Bars can affect the motions of its spiral arms, its stars and interstellar gas&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}