{"id":34601,"date":"2019-03-07T23:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34601"},"modified":"2019-03-07T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:23:05","slug":"how-much-weight-would-the-milky-way-weigh-if-the-milky-way-could-be-weighed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34601","title":{"rendered":"How much weight would the Milky Way weigh if the Milky Way could be weighed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The Milky Way is even weightier than imagined. Using data from NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency&#8217;s Gaia satellite, astronomers have determined the most accurate measurement of its mass: Our vast galaxy clocks in at 1.5 trillion solar masses. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">One solar mass is the mass of our sun, which is 2 times 10 to the 30th power kilograms. It&#8217;s not exactly as if the Milky Way, or even stars and planets, can be put on a scale.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We want to know the mass of the Milky Way more accurately so that we can put it into a cosmological context and compare it to simulations of galaxies in the evolving universe,&#8221; Roeland van der Marel, head of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope mission office at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said in a statement. &#8220;Not knowing the precise mass of the Milky Way presents a problem for a lot of cosmological questions.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The Milky Way is even weightier than imagined. Using data from NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency&#8217;s Gaia satellite, astronomers have determined the most accurate measurement of its mass: Our vast galaxy clocks in at 1.5 trillion solar masses. One solar mass is the mass of our sun, which is 2 times&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}