{"id":235091,"date":"2026-04-13T23:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-track-down-the-universes-missing-hydrogen"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:30:02","slug":"after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-track-down-the-universes-missing-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-track-down-the-universes-missing-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"After Decades of Searching, Astronomers Finally Track Down the Universe\u2019s Missing Hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-decades-of-searching-astronomers-finally-track-down-the-universes-missing-hydrogen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A vast new survey of the early universe has dramatically expanded the known population of hydrogen gas halos surrounding young galaxies, revealing that these structures are far more common and diverse than previously thought. Astronomers analyzing data from the Hobby\u2013Eberly Telescope Dark Energy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vast new survey of the early universe has dramatically expanded the known population of hydrogen gas halos surrounding young galaxies, revealing that these structures are far more common and diverse than previously thought. Astronomers analyzing data from the Hobby\u2013Eberly Telescope Dark Energy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235091","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=235091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}