{"id":128084,"date":"2021-09-25T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T15:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/breathtaking-einstein-ring-reveals-views-of-a-galaxy-9-4-billion-light-years-away"},"modified":"2021-09-25T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T15:23:22","slug":"breathtaking-einstein-ring-reveals-views-of-a-galaxy-9-4-billion-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/breathtaking-einstein-ring-reveals-views-of-a-galaxy-9-4-billion-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Breathtaking \u2018Einstein Ring\u2019 Reveals Views of a Galaxy 9.4 Billion Light-Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breathtaking-einstein-ring-reveals-views-of-a-galaxy-9-4-billion-light-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most spectacular Einstein rings ever seen in space is enabling us to see what\u2019s happening in a galaxy almost at the dawn of time.<\/p>\n<p>The smears of light called the Molten Ring, stretched out and warped by gravitational fields, are magnifications and duplications of a galaxy whose light has traveled a whopping 9.4 billion light-years. This magnification has given us a rare insight into the stellar \u2018baby boom\u2019 when the Universe was still in its infancy.<\/p>\n<p>The early evolution of the Universe is a difficult time to understand. It blinked into existence as we understand it roughly 13.8 billion years ago, with the first light emerging (we think) around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwatelescope.org\/science\/epoch-of-reionization-eor\">1 billion years later<\/a>. Light traveling for that amount of time is faint, the sources of it small, and dust obscures much of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most spectacular Einstein rings ever seen in space is enabling us to see what\u2019s happening in a galaxy almost at the dawn of time. The smears of light called the Molten Ring, stretched out and warped by gravitational fields, are magnifications and duplications of a galaxy whose light has traveled a whopping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128084","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=128084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}