{"id":90944,"date":"2019-05-18T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-universe-may-be-a-billion-years-younger-than-we-thought-scientists-are-scrambling-to-figure-out-why"},"modified":"2019-05-18T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T19:02:23","slug":"the-universe-may-be-a-billion-years-younger-than-we-thought-scientists-are-scrambling-to-figure-out-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-universe-may-be-a-billion-years-younger-than-we-thought-scientists-are-scrambling-to-figure-out-why","title":{"rendered":"The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought. Scientists are scrambling to figure out why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-may-be-a-billion-years-younger-than-we-thought-scientists-are-scrambling-to-figure-out-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research suggests that the Big Bang that birthed the cosmos occurred 12.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth. ESA \/ Hubble \/ Josh Lake \/ via AFP \u2014 Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/universe-may-be-billion-years-younger-we-thought-scientists-are-ncna1005541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that the Big Bang that birthed the cosmos occurred 12.5 billion years ago. The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth. ESA \/ Hubble \/ Josh Lake \/ via AFP \u2014 Getty Images. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90944","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=90944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}