{"id":242670,"date":"2026-08-13T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-universe-is-13-8-billion-years-old-webb-is-finding-galaxies-that-look-like-theyve-been-quietly-forming-stars-for-billions-of-years-inside-a-cosmos-that-was-at-the-time-of-observation-o"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:02:21","slug":"the-universe-is-13-8-billion-years-old-webb-is-finding-galaxies-that-look-like-theyve-been-quietly-forming-stars-for-billions-of-years-inside-a-cosmos-that-was-at-the-time-of-observation-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-universe-is-13-8-billion-years-old-webb-is-finding-galaxies-that-look-like-theyve-been-quietly-forming-stars-for-billions-of-years-inside-a-cosmos-that-was-at-the-time-of-observation-o","title":{"rendered":"The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Webb is finding galaxies that look like they\u2019ve been quietly forming stars for billions of years inside a cosmos that was, at the time of observation, only a few hundred million years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-is-13-8-billion-years-old-webb-is-finding-galaxies-that-look-like-theyve-been-quietly-forming-stars-for-billions-of-years-inside-a-cosmos-that-was-at-the-time-of-observation-o.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Webb\u2019s stunning early galaxies are forcing astronomers to rethink cosmic history\u2014but not quite in the way the headlines suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webb\u2019s stunning early galaxies are forcing astronomers to rethink cosmic history\u2014but not quite in the way the headlines suggest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242670","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}