{"id":102667,"date":"2020-02-22T18:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T02:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-discover-breathable-oxygen-in-a-galaxy-outside-of-the-milky-way-for-the-first-time-the-only-problem-is-its-581-million-light-years-away"},"modified":"2020-02-22T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T02:03:21","slug":"scientists-discover-breathable-oxygen-in-a-galaxy-outside-of-the-milky-way-for-the-first-time-the-only-problem-is-its-581-million-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-discover-breathable-oxygen-in-a-galaxy-outside-of-the-milky-way-for-the-first-time-the-only-problem-is-its-581-million-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover BREATHABLE OXYGEN in a galaxy outside of the Milky Way for the first time \u2014 the only problem is it\u2019s 581 million light years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-breathable-oxygen-in-a-galaxy-outside-of-the-milky-way-for-the-first-time-the-only-problem-is-its-581-million-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a large body of water in front of a building: Light wave readings taken at the IRAM 30-meter telescope in Granada, Spain (pictured above)  helped scientists detect signatures of molecular oxygen in the Markarian 231 galaxy, the first time the compound has been detected outside the Milky Way\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BB10fOLZ.img?h=181&w=270&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f\" class=\"\"> \u00a9 Provided by Daily Mail Light wave readings taken at the IRAM 30-meter telescope in Granada, Spain (pictured above) helped scientists detect signatures of molecular oxygen in the Markarian 231 galaxy, the first time the compound has been\u2026 For the first time ever, astronomers have identified molecular oxygen in a galaxy outside the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made by a team of astronomers at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, led by Junzhi Wang.<\/p>\n<p>The team identified the presence of molecular oxygen by analyzing light waves that had reached Earth from Markarian 231, a galaxy around 581 million light years away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Provided by Daily Mail Light wave readings taken at the IRAM 30-meter telescope in Granada, Spain (pictured above) helped scientists detect signatures of molecular oxygen in the Markarian 231 galaxy, the first time the compound has been\u2026 For the first time ever, astronomers have identified molecular oxygen in a galaxy outside the Milky Way. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}