{"id":117317,"date":"2020-12-18T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/c1-23152-an-ancient-galaxy-that-built-itself"},"modified":"2020-12-18T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:22:18","slug":"c1-23152-an-ancient-galaxy-that-built-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/c1-23152-an-ancient-galaxy-that-built-itself","title":{"rendered":"C1-23152: An ancient galaxy that built itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/c1-23152-an-ancient-galaxy-that-built-itself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A popular theory of galaxy formation suggests that small galaxies merged to form larger ones. But galaxy C1-23152 \u2014 12 billion light-years from Earth \u2014 apparently formed itself from gas in the early universe, via exceedingly rapid star formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular theory of galaxy formation suggests that small galaxies merged to form larger ones. But galaxy C1-23152 \u2014 12 billion light-years from Earth \u2014 apparently formed itself from gas in the early universe, via exceedingly rapid star formation.<\/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-117317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117317","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=117317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}