{"id":245080,"date":"2026-10-09T02:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/james-webb-space-telescope-helps-detect-the-most-distant-fast-radio-burst-ever-seen-and-scientists-are-surprised-by-its-source"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:04:57","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-helps-detect-the-most-distant-fast-radio-burst-ever-seen-and-scientists-are-surprised-by-its-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/james-webb-space-telescope-helps-detect-the-most-distant-fast-radio-burst-ever-seen-and-scientists-are-surprised-by-its-source","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope helps detect the most distant Fast Radio Burst ever seen \u2014 and scientists are surprised by its source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-helps-detect-the-most-distant-fast-radio-burst-ever-seen-and-scientists-are-surprised-by-its-source.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an extraordinary glimpse into the distant universe,\u201d team co-leader Manisha Caleb from the Sydney Institute for Astronomy said in a statement sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a>. \u201cWe have caught a fast radio burst from a time when the universe was only about three billion years old, and we have used that brief flash of radio light to learn about the matter it has travelled through over billions of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s research was published on Thursday (Oct. 8) in the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is an extraordinary glimpse into the distant universe,\u201d team co-leader Manisha Caleb from the Sydney Institute for Astronomy said in a statement sent to Space.com. \u201cWe have caught a fast radio burst from a time when the universe was only about three billion years old, and we have used that brief flash of radio [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245080","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=245080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}