{"id":84799,"date":"2018-11-16T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-discovery-shows-glass-made-from-exploding-stars"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T00:02:25","slug":"new-discovery-shows-glass-made-from-exploding-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-discovery-shows-glass-made-from-exploding-stars","title":{"rendered":"New discovery shows glass made from exploding stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-discovery-shows-glass-made-from-exploding-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next time you\u2019re gazing out of the window in search of inspiration, keep in mind the material you\u2019re looking through was forged inside the heart of an exploding ancient star.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists said Friday they had detected <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silica\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silica<\/a>\u2014the main component of glass\u2014in the remnants of two distant supernovae billions of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+years\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light years<\/a> from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers used NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope to analyse the light emitted by the collapsing mega-cluster and obtain silica\u2019s \u201cfingerprint\u201d based on the specific wavelength of light the material is known to emit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-discovery-glass-stars.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-discovery-glass-stars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you\u2019re gazing out of the window in search of inspiration, keep in mind the material you\u2019re looking through was forged inside the heart of an exploding ancient star. An international team of scientists said Friday they had detected silica\u2014the main component of glass\u2014in the remnants of two distant supernovae billions of light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84799","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=84799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}