{"id":1650,"date":"2025-06-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2025-06-15T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:01:24","slug":"will-the-milky-way-and-andromeda-crash-now-scientists-arent-so-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.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&#8217;t so sure."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/will-the-milky-way-and-andromeda-crash-now-scientists-arent_y1yg.640.jpg\">Whether the two galaxies will merge just became a real &#8220;will they, won&#8217;t they?&#8221; for astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have believed for decades that the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/24291\/scientists-drop-absolutely-stunning-new-view-of-the-milky-way-galaxy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milky Way<\/a><\/u> is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/51476\/scientists-capture-absolutely-stunning-image-of-the-andromeda-galaxy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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 <u>&lt;a \u2026<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the two galaxies will merge just became a real &#8220;will they, won&#8217;t they?&#8221; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}