{"id":1284,"date":"2008-07-30T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2008\/07\/30\/the-galactic-bar-scene\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T21:24:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T20:24:28","slug":"the-galactic-bar-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2008\/07\/30\/the-galactic-bar-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"The galactic bar scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/mr.caltech.edu\/media\/Press_Releases\/PR13170.html\">PASADENA, Calif.&#8211;Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case.<\/a> A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled in number over the past seven billion years\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So what\u2019s the cause? Gentrification, or looser liquor licensing laws?\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/images\/smile1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> You decide.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">(with a tip of the hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pontiff\/2008\/07\/the_bar_scene.php\">The Quantum Pontiff<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bjtags\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASADENA, Calif.&#8211;Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. 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