{"id":156665,"date":"2023-01-31T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/astronomers-say-they-have-spotted-the-universes-first-stars"},"modified":"2023-01-31T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:23:53","slug":"astronomers-say-they-have-spotted-the-universes-first-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/astronomers-say-they-have-spotted-the-universes-first-stars","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe\u2019s First Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-say-they-have-spotted-the-universes-first-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of astronomers poring over data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has glimpsed light from ionized helium in a distant galaxy, which could indicate the presence of the universe\u2019s very first generation of stars.<\/p>\n<p>These long-sought, inaptly named \u201cPopulation III\u201d stars would have been ginormous balls of hydrogen and helium sculpted from the universe\u2019s primordial gas. Theorists started imagining these first fireballs in the 1970s, hypothesizing that, after short lifetimes, they exploded as supernovas, forging heavier elements and spewing them into the cosmos. That star stuff later gave rise to Population II stars more abundant in heavy elements, then even richer Population I stars like our sun, as well as planets, asteroids, comets and eventually life itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of astronomers poring over data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has glimpsed light from ionized helium in a distant galaxy, which could indicate the presence of the universe\u2019s very first generation of stars. These long-sought, inaptly named \u201cPopulation III\u201d stars would have been ginormous balls of hydrogen and helium sculpted from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156665","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}