{"id":76419,"date":"2018-02-28T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/first-light-which-ever-shone-in-universe-picked-up"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:42:37","slug":"first-light-which-ever-shone-in-universe-picked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/first-light-which-ever-shone-in-universe-picked-up","title":{"rendered":"First light which ever shone in universe picked up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-light-which-ever-shone-in-universe-picked-up.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>T he first light which ever shone in the universe has been <a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature25792\">detected<\/a> by astronomers scouring the skies for the earliest stars.<\/p>\n<p>Using a simple radio antenna positioned in the quietest place on Earth \u2014 the western Australian desert \u2014 scientists picked up a signal of the long-sought \u2018cosmic dawn.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough was described as \u2018revolutionary\u2019, \u2018trailblazing\u2019 and the most important discovery in astronomy since the detection of gravitational waves in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/02\/28\/first-light-ever-shone-universe-picked-astronomers-revolutionary\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/02\/28\/first-light-e...lutionary\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T he first light which ever shone in the universe has been detected by astronomers scouring the skies for the earliest stars. Using a simple radio antenna positioned in the quietest place on Earth \u2014 the western Australian desert \u2014 scientists picked up a signal of the long-sought \u2018cosmic dawn.\u2019 The breakthrough was described as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76419","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=76419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}