{"id":79605,"date":"2018-06-14T08:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/scientists-have-found-interstellar-dust-on-earth-thats-older-than-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2018-06-14T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:42:32","slug":"scientists-have-found-interstellar-dust-on-earth-thats-older-than-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/scientists-have-found-interstellar-dust-on-earth-thats-older-than-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Found Interstellar Dust on Earth That\u2019s Older Than Our Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-interstellar-dust-on-earth-thats-older-than-our-solar-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ancient interstellar dust formed the Earth and the solar system.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Particles collected from Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere, originally deposited by comets, are older than our Solar System, scientists say \u2013 and these fine bits of interstellar dust could teach us about how planets and stars form <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/everything-we-think-about-the-formation-of-the-solar-system-might-be-wrong\">from the very beginning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These cosmic particles have lived through at least 4.6 billion years and travelled across incredible distances, according to the new research into their chemical composition.<\/p>\n<p>The international team of scientists behind this study are confident that we\u2019re looking at the very basic materials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-observed-a-planet-forming-for-the-first-time-ever\">making up the planetary bodies<\/a> currently whizzing around our Sun. For anyone studying the origins of the Universe, it\u2019s a fantastic finding.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-find-interstellar-dust-older-than-sun-solar-system?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-find-interstellar-du...rePageSign<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ancient interstellar dust formed the Earth and the solar system. Particles collected from Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere, originally deposited by comets, are older than our Solar System, scientists say \u2013 and these fine bits of interstellar dust could teach us about how planets and stars form from the very beginning. These cosmic particles have lived [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79605","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}