{"id":201356,"date":"2024-12-12T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/firefly-sparkle-christmas-galaxy-reveals-how-universe-formed"},"modified":"2024-12-12T06:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:34:48","slug":"firefly-sparkle-christmas-galaxy-reveals-how-universe-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/firefly-sparkle-christmas-galaxy-reveals-how-universe-formed","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Sparkle: \u2018Christmas\u2019 galaxy reveals how Universe formed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/firefly-sparkle-christmas-galaxy-reveals-how-universe-formed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"\">NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has for the first time captured an image of what our galaxy likely looked like just as it was forming \u2014 and it\u2019s got space scientists feeling very Christmassy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just love the sparkle galaxy with its Christmas lights shining as it was when the Universe was just 600 million years old,\u201d Prof Catherine Heymans, Scotland\u2019s Astronomer Royal, told BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The image shows ten balls of stars of different colours, appearing like Christmas tree baubles hanging in the cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has for the first time captured an image of what our galaxy likely looked like just as it was forming \u2014 and it\u2019s got space scientists feeling very Christmassy. \u201cI just love the sparkle galaxy with its Christmas lights shining as it was when the Universe was just 600 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201356","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=201356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}