{"id":108353,"date":"2020-06-08T03:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hubble-looked-as-far-back-in-time-as-it-could-and-still-couldnt-see-the-first-generation-of-stars-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2020-06-08T03:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T10:46:56","slug":"hubble-looked-as-far-back-in-time-as-it-could-and-still-couldnt-see-the-first-generation-of-stars-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hubble-looked-as-far-back-in-time-as-it-could-and-still-couldnt-see-the-first-generation-of-stars-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Looked as Far Back in Time as it Could, and Still Couldn\u2019t See the First Generation of Stars in the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-looked-as-far-back-in-time-as-it-could-and-still-couldnt-see-the-first-generation-of-stars-in-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers don\u2019t know exactly when the first stars formed in the Universe because they haven\u2019t been observed yet. And now, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest the first stars and galaxies may have formed even earlier than previously estimated.<\/p>\n<p>Why? We *still* haven\u2019t seen them, even with the best telescope we\u2019ve got, pushed to its limits.<\/p>\n<p>A group of researchers used Hubble to look back in time (and space) as far as it could see, hoping to study these first generation of stars of the early Universe, which are called Population III stars. Hubble peered and squinted back to when the Universe was just 500 million years old \u2013 which is thought to be Hubble\u2019s limit \u2014 and found no evidence of these very first stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers don\u2019t know exactly when the first stars formed in the Universe because they haven\u2019t been observed yet. And now, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest the first stars and galaxies may have formed even earlier than previously estimated. Why? We *still* haven\u2019t seen them, even with the best telescope we\u2019ve got, pushed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108353","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}