{"id":158879,"date":"2023-02-24T05:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/webb-telescope-makes-a-surprising-galactic-discovery-in-the-distant-universe"},"modified":"2023-02-24T05:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:24:03","slug":"webb-telescope-makes-a-surprising-galactic-discovery-in-the-distant-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/webb-telescope-makes-a-surprising-galactic-discovery-in-the-distant-universe","title":{"rendered":"Webb telescope makes a surprising galactic discovery in the distant universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-telescope-makes-a-surprising-galactic-discovery-in-the-distant-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese objects are way more massive than anyone expected,\u201d said study coauthor Joel Leja, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, in a statement. \u201cWe expected only to find tiny, young, baby galaxies at this point in time, but we\u2019ve discovered galaxies as mature as our own in what was previously understood to be the dawn of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The telescope observes the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, and is capable of detecting the faint light from ancient stars and galaxies. By peering into the distant universe, the observatory can essentially see back in time up to about 13.5 billion years ago. (Scientists have determined the universe is about 13.7 billion years old.) <\/p>\n<p>The operations center for the telescope is in Baltimore City, at the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese objects are way more massive than anyone expected,\u201d said study coauthor Joel Leja, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, in a statement. \u201cWe expected only to find tiny, young, baby galaxies at this point in time, but we\u2019ve discovered galaxies as mature as our own in what was previously understood [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158879","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=158879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}