{"id":181630,"date":"2024-01-29T10:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/webb-data-suggest-many-early-galaxies-were-long-and-thin-not-disk-like-or-spherical"},"modified":"2024-01-29T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T16:22:52","slug":"webb-data-suggest-many-early-galaxies-were-long-and-thin-not-disk-like-or-spherical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/webb-data-suggest-many-early-galaxies-were-long-and-thin-not-disk-like-or-spherical","title":{"rendered":"Webb data suggest many Early Galaxies were Long and Thin, not Disk-like or Spherical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-data-suggest-many-early-galaxies-were-long-and-thin-not-disk-like-or-spherical.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks\u2014and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions,\u201d explained Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University and the lead author of a new paper slated to appear in The Astrophysical Journal that outlines the findings. The paper is currently published on the arXiv preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGalaxies that look like long, thin breadsticks seem to be very common in the early universe, which is surprising since they are uncommon among galaxies in the present-day universe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks\u2014and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough. \u201cRoughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions,\u201d explained Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181630","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=181630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}