{"id":224662,"date":"2025-11-07T01:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ingredients-for-life-spotted-in-harsh-early-universe-like-galaxy"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:16:15","slug":"ingredients-for-life-spotted-in-harsh-early-universe-like-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ingredients-for-life-spotted-in-harsh-early-universe-like-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Ingredients for Life Spotted in Harsh, \u201cEarly Universe-Like\u201d Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ingredients-for-life-spotted-in-harsh-early-universe-like-galaxy3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a finding that may transform our understanding of how life\u2019s chemical precursors are distributed across the universe, astronomers have detected organic molecules containing more than six atoms frozen in ice around a young star named ST6, located in a galaxy beyond the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>Using the James Webb Space Telescopes (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), the team identified five distinct carbon-based compounds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, our nearest neighboring galaxy. The research, led by University of Maryland and NASA scientist Marta Sewilo, was published in the <em> Astrophysical Journal Letters <\/em> on October 20, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a finding that may transform our understanding of how life\u2019s chemical precursors are distributed across the universe, astronomers have detected organic molecules containing more than six atoms frozen in ice around a young star named ST6, located in a galaxy beyond the Milky Way. Using the James Webb Space Telescopes (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224662","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}