{"id":233911,"date":"2026-03-23T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/astronomers-just-reconstructed-a-galaxys-12-billion-year-history"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:04:14","slug":"astronomers-just-reconstructed-a-galaxys-12-billion-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/astronomers-just-reconstructed-a-galaxys-12-billion-year-history","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Just Reconstructed a Galaxy\u2019s 12-Billion-Year History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-just-reconstructed-a-galaxys-12-billion-year-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By reading the chemical \u201cfingerprints\u201d of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new method could reveal how galaxies\u2014including our own\u2014were built over cosmic time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By reading the chemical \u201cfingerprints\u201d of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new method could reveal how galaxies\u2014including our own\u2014were built over cosmic time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233911","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=233911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}