{"id":167871,"date":"2023-07-20T00:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T05:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/jwst-just-detected-carbon-in-the-cosmic-dawn-before-we-thought-carbon-was-possible"},"modified":"2023-07-20T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T05:23:45","slug":"jwst-just-detected-carbon-in-the-cosmic-dawn-before-we-thought-carbon-was-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/jwst-just-detected-carbon-in-the-cosmic-dawn-before-we-thought-carbon-was-possible","title":{"rendered":"JWST Just Detected Carbon in The Cosmic Dawn\u2026 Before We Thought Carbon Was Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jwst-just-detected-carbon-in-the-cosmic-dawn-before-we-thought-carbon-was-possible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>EMBARGO Wednesday 19 July 1,600 BST | 1,500 GMT | Thursday 20 July 100 AEST<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Back when the Universe was still just a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-simulation-shows-the-universe-s-lights-being-switched-on-at-the-dawn-of-time\">wee baby Universe<\/a>, there wasn\u2019t a lot going on chemically. There was hydrogen, with some helium, and a few traces of other things. Heavier elements didn\u2019t arrive until stars had formed, lived, and died.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, therefore, the consternation of scientists when, using the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back into the distant reaches of the Universe, they discovered significant amounts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/complex-molecules-detected-in-ancient-galaxy-near-the-dawn-of-time\">carbon dust<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-breathtaking-video-will-take-you-to-the-dawn-of-the-universe\">less than a billion years<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/big-bang\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Big Bang<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMBARGO Wednesday 19 July 1,600 BST | 1,500 GMT | Thursday 20 July 100 AEST Back when the Universe was still just a wee baby Universe, there wasn\u2019t a lot going on chemically. There was hydrogen, with some helium, and a few traces of other things. Heavier elements didn\u2019t arrive until stars had formed, lived, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167871","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}