{"id":243314,"date":"2026-08-28T05:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/radio-telescopes-help-scientists-map-molecules-in-space-and-uncover-where-and-how-stars-form"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:04:32","slug":"radio-telescopes-help-scientists-map-molecules-in-space-and-uncover-where-and-how-stars-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/radio-telescopes-help-scientists-map-molecules-in-space-and-uncover-where-and-how-stars-form","title":{"rendered":"Radio telescopes help scientists map molecules in space and uncover where and how stars form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radio-telescopes-help-scientists-map-molecules-in-space-and-uncover-where-and-how-stars-form.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may have heard the phrase \u201cwe are made of star-stuff.\u201d This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact that elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were forged in the centers of the first stars. But how does this star-stuff evolve into the chemistry of rocks, plants and people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the phrase \u201cwe are made of star-stuff.\u201d This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact that elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were forged in the centers of the first stars. But how does this star-stuff evolve into the chemistry of rocks, plants and people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243314","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}