{"id":286949,"date":"2025-09-19T02:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=db7895c1cd0e64c4fcc12e024dc404ff"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:14:05","slug":"milky-way-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=286949","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"The Milky Way galaxy appears above Earth&#039;s greenish atmospheric glow. The galaxy&#039;s dust and stars can be seen against the darkness of space.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg 8256w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss073e0516005orig.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA; JAXA<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/exoplanets.nasa.gov\/milky-way-overlay\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Milky Way<\/a> appears above Earth&#8217;s bright atmospheric glow in this Aug. 23, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 261 miles above southern Iran at approximately 12:54 a.m. local time. The camera was configured for low light and long duration settings.<\/p>\n<p>Our home galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, enough gas and dust to make billions more stars, and at least ten times as much dark matter as all the stars and gas put together. <a href=\"https:\/\/roman.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope<\/a> \u2013 slated to launch no later than May 2027 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/roman-space-telescope\/how-nasas-roman-mission-will-unveil-our-home-galaxy-using-cosmic-dust\/\">will help scientists better understand the gas and dust strewn between stars in our galaxy<\/a>, known as the interstellar medium.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA; JAXA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milky Way appears above Earth\u2019s bright atmospheric glow in this Aug. 23, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 261 miles above southern Iran at approximately 12:54 a.m. local time. The camera was configured for low light and long duration settings. Our home galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15651,15769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-space-station-iss","category-the-milky-way"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286986,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286949\/revisions\/286986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}