{"id":204455,"date":"2025-01-24T18:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/universes-first-stars-flooded-the-cosmos-with-water-study-says"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:23:39","slug":"universes-first-stars-flooded-the-cosmos-with-water-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/universes-first-stars-flooded-the-cosmos-with-water-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Universe\u2019s First Stars Flooded The Cosmos With Water, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universes-first-stars-flooded-the-cosmos-with-water-study-says3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains water within it. The Earth is rich with life because it is rich with water.<\/p>\n<p>This fundamental connection between water and life is partly due to water\u2019s extraordinary properties, but part of it is due to the fact that water is one of the most abundant molecules in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Made from one part oxygen and two parts hydrogen, its structure is simple and strong. The hydrogen comes from the primordial fire of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/big-bang\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Big Bang<\/a> and is by far the most common element. Oxygen is created in the cores of large stars, along with carbon and nitrogen, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/briankoberlein.com\/blog\/let-it-cno\/\">CNO fusion cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains water within it. The Earth is rich with life because it is rich with water. This fundamental connection between water and life is partly due to water\u2019s extraordinary properties, but part of it is due to the fact that water is one of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204455","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}