{"id":164152,"date":"2023-05-18T20:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/webb-telescope-spots-signs-of-universes-biggest-stars"},"modified":"2023-05-18T20:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:23:21","slug":"webb-telescope-spots-signs-of-universes-biggest-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/webb-telescope-spots-signs-of-universes-biggest-stars","title":{"rendered":"Webb telescope spots signs of universe\u2019s biggest stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-telescope-spots-signs-of-universes-biggest-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers detect the first chemical signs of supermassive stars, \u201ccelestial monsters\u201d blazing with the brightness of millions of Suns in the early universe.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the largest stars observed anywhere have a mass of around 300 times that of our Sun.<\/p>\n<p>But the supermassive star described in a new study has an estimated mass of 5,000 to 10,000 Suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers detect the first chemical signs of supermassive stars, \u201ccelestial monsters\u201d blazing with the brightness of millions of Suns in the early universe. So far, the largest stars observed anywhere have a mass of around 300 times that of our Sun. But the supermassive star described in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164152","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=164152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}