{"id":159245,"date":"2023-02-28T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/finally-spotted-jwst-caught-a-1-4-billion-year-old-metal-rich-galaxy"},"modified":"2023-02-28T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:26:05","slug":"finally-spotted-jwst-caught-a-1-4-billion-year-old-metal-rich-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/finally-spotted-jwst-caught-a-1-4-billion-year-old-metal-rich-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Finally spotted! JWST caught a 1.4 billion year old, metal-rich galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finally-spotted-jwst-caught-a-1-4-billion-year-old-metal-rich-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery has left astronomers at Cornell University in wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing the data of the first image captured by NASA\u2019s JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) of a popular early galaxy, astronomers at Cornell University were surprised by the blob of light shining near the galaxy\u2019s outer edge.<\/p>\n<p>While scanning the image, the initial focus and target of the infrared observatory was SPT0418-47, one of the brightest dusty, star-creating galaxies in the early universe. Its distant light bent and magnified into a circle (Einstein ring) by the gravity of a foreground galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery has left astronomers at Cornell University in wonder. Analyzing the data of the first image captured by NASA\u2019s JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) of a popular early galaxy, astronomers at Cornell University were surprised by the blob of light shining near the galaxy\u2019s outer edge. While scanning the image, the initial focus and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159245","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}