{"id":668,"date":"2025-03-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:44:29","slug":"scientists-find-a-galaxy-that-defies-conventional-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/scientists-find-a-galaxy-that-defies-conventional-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find a galaxy that defies conventional wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It's a “surprising discovery.”<\/p>\n

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. <\/p>\n

Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268?0449256 is a spiral, like our home the Milky Way<\/a>. Yet it does something galactic researchers only thought possible in much more massive elliptical galaxies, which form through mergers of galaxies: It \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It's a “surprising discovery.” Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268?0449256 is a spiral, like our home the Milky Way. Yet it does something galactic researchers only thought possible in much more massive elliptical galaxies, which form through mergers of galaxies: It \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670,"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\/668"}],"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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}