{"id":2833,"date":"2011-07-11T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T23:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T23:36:59","slug":"a-cannibal-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/a-cannibal-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"A cannibal among us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2834\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/galaxy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2834 \" title=\"galaxy1\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/galaxy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image shows a side-on view of the simulated Milky Way.  The thin disk is in blue and the thick disk in red.  The green circle shows the location of the Solar System\/Earth within the thin disk.  Credit: Dr Kenji Bekki, ICRAR. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The Milky Way might have swallowed a galaxy as part of its formation.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team of international space scientist worked together to simulate a merger between a galaxy and an infant Milky Way. The event, which happened some nine billion years ago, has been a source of dispute among researchers worldwide, but this study provides the best venue yet to determine whether or nor the merger actually occurred.<\/p>\n<p>As quoted on the press release: &#8220;The Milky Way is shaped like two fried eggs placed back to back, where the yolks are a puffy collection of older stars called the bulge. The whites are a bright collection of younger stars known as the thin disk. The thick disk is a puffed up version of the thin disk, but is ten times lighter.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kenji Bekki, of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Perth suggests that these results might change the way in which we perceive our Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>The paper &#8220;Origin of chemical and dynamical properties of the Galactic thick disk&#8221;\u009d was published\u00a0 in <a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/0004-637X\/\">Astrophysical Journa<\/a>l.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwa.edu.au\/\">The University of Western Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milky Way might have swallowed a galaxy as part of its formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,36,8,23],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophysics","category-news","category-science","category-science-update","tag-staff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}