{"id":97891,"date":"2019-10-26T19:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T02:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/scientists-find-answer-to-vast-puzzle-about-the-universe-in-the-middle-of-two-colliding-stars"},"modified":"2019-10-26T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T02:42:36","slug":"scientists-find-answer-to-vast-puzzle-about-the-universe-in-the-middle-of-two-colliding-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/scientists-find-answer-to-vast-puzzle-about-the-universe-in-the-middle-of-two-colliding-stars","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find answer to vast puzzle about the universe in the middle of two colliding stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-answer-to-vast-puzzle-about-the-universe-in-the-middle-of-two-colliding-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found the answer to a decades-long mystery, in the middle of two colliding stars.<\/p>\n<p>For the first ever time, a newly made heavy element called strontium was detected in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Space\" class=\"\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-9168446-\/topic\/Space\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">space<\/a> after two neutron stars crashed into each other.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery definitively confirms that heavier elements in the universe can be made in the mergers of neutron stars, at last helping answer the puzzle of how chemical elements form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found the answer to a decades-long mystery, in the middle of two colliding stars. For the first ever time, a newly made heavy element called strontium was detected in space after two neutron stars crashed into each other. The discovery definitively confirms that heavier elements in the universe can be made in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97891","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}