{"id":193196,"date":"2024-07-20T02:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T07:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/a-13-3bn-years-old-oxygen-signal-indicates-a-star-formed-just-250-million-years-after-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2024-07-20T02:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T07:23:11","slug":"a-13-3bn-years-old-oxygen-signal-indicates-a-star-formed-just-250-million-years-after-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/a-13-3bn-years-old-oxygen-signal-indicates-a-star-formed-just-250-million-years-after-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"A 13.3bn years old oxygen signal indicates a star formed just 250 million years after the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-13-3bn-years-old-oxygen-signal-indicates-a-star-formed-just-250-million-years-after-the-big-bang.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is not your typical telescope. Instead, ALMA, located in northern Chile\u2019s high-and-dry Atacama Desert, is a radio telescope comprised of 66 high-precision antennas that work in perfect harmony. When ALMA\u2019s antennas (which range in diameter from 7 to 12 meters) are deployed in various ways, the array may zoom in on some of the universe\u2019s most distant cosmic objects while also recording images crisper than those generated by the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>First starlight<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a research published in the journal Nature, an international team of astronomers utilized this amazing array to investigate MACS1149-JD1, an exceedingly distant galaxy. The team was shocked to uncover tiny signs of ionized oxygen emitted about 13.3 billion years ago (or 500 million years after the Big Bang).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is not your typical telescope. Instead, ALMA, located in northern Chile\u2019s high-and-dry Atacama Desert, is a radio telescope comprised of 66 high-precision antennas that work in perfect harmony. When ALMA\u2019s antennas (which range in diameter from 7 to 12 meters) are deployed in various ways, the array may zoom [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193196","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}