{"id":177114,"date":"2023-11-30T11:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/teenage-galaxies-are-unusually-hot-glowing-with-unexpected-elements"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:22:48","slug":"teenage-galaxies-are-unusually-hot-glowing-with-unexpected-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/teenage-galaxies-are-unusually-hot-glowing-with-unexpected-elements","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Teenage Galaxies\u2019 are Unusually Hot, Glowing with Unexpected Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teenage-galaxies-are-unusually-hot-glowing-with-unexpected-elements.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similar to human teenagers, teenage galaxies are awkward, experience growth spurts and enjoy heavy metal \u2014 nickel, that is.<\/p>\n<p>A Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists has just analyzed the first results from the CECILIA (Chemical Evolution Constrained using Ionized Lines in Interstellar Aurorae) Survey, a program that uses NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study the chemistry of distant galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the early results, so-called \u201cteenage galaxies\u201d \u2014 which formed two-to-three billion years after the Big Bang \u2014 are unusually hot and contain unexpected elements, like nickel, which are notoriously difficult to observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to human teenagers, teenage galaxies are awkward, experience growth spurts and enjoy heavy metal \u2014 nickel, that is. A Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists has just analyzed the first results from the CECILIA (Chemical Evolution Constrained using Ionized Lines in Interstellar Aurorae) Survey, a program that uses NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177114","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}