{"id":214479,"date":"2016-03-24T12:58:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=214479"},"modified":"2016-03-24T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:58:31","slug":"more-clusters-in-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/more-clusters-in-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"More clusters in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have announced the discovery of 493 additional star clusters in the central \u2013 or \u201cbulge\u201d \u2013 region of the Milky Way.\u00a0 The region&#8217;s secrets are concealed behind thick clouds of gas and dust, but can be descried with cameras sensitive to infrared light.\u00a0 The infrared camera of the VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Cerro Paranal, a mountain in Chile, has been mapping unknown structures in the bulge of the Milky Way since 2010 (<a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/2012\/10\/18\/the-beginning-and-the-end-of-cosmic-rays\/?\" target=\"_blank\">see <em><i>Pesquisa FAPESP<\/i><\/em> Issue n\u00ba 200<\/a>).\u00a0 \u201cThe discoveries of VISTA have more than doubled the number of known clusters in this region,\u201d says Brazilian astrophysicist Roberto Saito from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFSE), who participated in the study published in <em><i>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/i><\/em> in September 2015.\u00a0 \u201cWe now know that there are more than a thousand clusters out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discovered 493 star clusters in the central region of the Milky Way","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[205],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-214479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-astronomy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214479"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=214479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}