{"id":122771,"date":"2021-05-21T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/an-ancient-star-casts-new-light-on-the-birth-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2021-05-21T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:22:30","slug":"an-ancient-star-casts-new-light-on-the-birth-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/an-ancient-star-casts-new-light-on-the-birth-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"An ancient star casts new light on the birth of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ancient-star-casts-new-light-on-the-birth-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered an exceedingly old star at the edge of our galaxy that seems to have formed only a few million years after the Big Bang \u2013 and what they are learning from it could affect their understanding of the birth of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/abf93d\">a study published last week<\/a>, researchers found the star during an astronomical survey of the southern sky with a technique called narrowband photometry, which measures the brightness of distant stars in different wavelengths of light and can reveal stars that have low levels of heavy elements.<\/p>\n<p>They then studied the star \u2013 known by its survey number as SPLUS J210428.01\u2212004934.2, or SPLUS J2104\u22120049 for short \u2013 with high-resolution spectroscopy to determine its chemical makeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered an exceedingly old star at the edge of our galaxy that seems to have formed only a few million years after the Big Bang \u2013 and what they are learning from it could affect their understanding of the birth of the universe. In a study published last week, researchers found the star [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122771","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=122771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}