{"id":2005,"date":"2025-06-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2025-06-05T21:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T21:44:33","slug":"will-the-milky-way-and-andromeda-crash-now-scientists-arent-so-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/will-the-milky-way-and-andromeda-crash-now-scientists-arent-so-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Milky Way and Andromeda crash? Now scientists aren't so sure."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Whether the two galaxies will merge just became a real “will they, won't they?” for astronomers.<\/p>\n

Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way<\/a><\/u> is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda<\/a><\/u>. They seemed all but certain the two galaxies were destined to smash in about 4 to 5 billion years, combining into one colossal galaxy in <a \u2026<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether the two galaxies will merge just became a real “will they, won't they?” for astronomers. Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda. They seemed all but certain the two galaxies were destined to smash in about 4 to 5 billion years, combining into one colossal galaxy in <a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}