{"id":853984,"date":"2025-06-07T18:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T23:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/astronomers-thought-the-milky-way-was-doomed-to-crash-into-andromeda-now-theyre-not-so-sure\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T23:12:29","slug":"astronomers-thought-the-milky-way-was-doomed-to-crash-into-andromeda-now-theyre-not-so-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/astronomers-thought-the-milky-way-was-doomed-to-crash-into-andromeda-now-theyre-not-so-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. Now they&#8217;re not so sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger\u2014expected in about 5 billion years\u2014has become a staple of astronomy documentaries, textbooks and popular science writing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-06-astronomers-thought-milky-doomed-andromeda.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Maribel Motsinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger\u2014expected in about 5 billion years\u2014has become a staple of astronomy documentaries, textbooks and popular science writing&#8230;Read MoreMaribel Motsinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22761,536,231],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-853984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-astronomers","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-thought"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}