{"id":225548,"date":"2025-11-21T01:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-13-billion-year-old-signal-could-finally-reveal-the-first-stars"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:23:49","slug":"a-13-billion-year-old-signal-could-finally-reveal-the-first-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-13-billion-year-old-signal-could-finally-reveal-the-first-stars","title":{"rendered":"A 13-Billion-Year-Old Signal Could Finally Reveal the First Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-13-billion-year-old-signal-could-finally-reveal-the-first-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers are uncovering new ways to study the universe\u2019s first stars, objects too distant and faint to observe directly, by examining the ancient 21-centimeter radio signal left behind by hydrogen atoms shortly after the Big Bang. Understanding how the universe shifted from complete darkness t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers are uncovering new ways to study the universe\u2019s first stars, objects too distant and faint to observe directly, by examining the ancient 21-centimeter radio signal left behind by hydrogen atoms shortly after the Big Bang. Understanding how the universe shifted from complete darkness t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225548","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=225548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}