{"id":243922,"date":"2026-09-11T05:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/discovery-reveals-rapid-pathways-to-complex-aromatic-molecules-in-space"},"modified":"2026-09-11T05:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:02:40","slug":"discovery-reveals-rapid-pathways-to-complex-aromatic-molecules-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/discovery-reveals-rapid-pathways-to-complex-aromatic-molecules-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Discovery reveals rapid pathways to complex aromatic molecules in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-reveals-rapid-pathways-to-complex-aromatic-molecules-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa Department of Chemistry has uncovered a faster way large carbon-based molecules may form in space, helping solve a long-standing mystery about how some of the building blocks of the universe grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa Department of Chemistry has uncovered a faster way large carbon-based molecules may form in space, helping solve a long-standing mystery about how some of the building blocks of the universe grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243922","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=243922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}