{"id":98495,"date":"2019-11-14T00:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/we-may-finally-know-how-the-universes-heavy-elements-formed"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:24:28","slug":"we-may-finally-know-how-the-universes-heavy-elements-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/we-may-finally-know-how-the-universes-heavy-elements-formed","title":{"rendered":"We May Finally Know How the Universe\u2019s Heavy Elements Formed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-may-finally-know-how-the-universes-heavy-elements-formed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have detected a newly born heavy element in space, forged in the aftermath of a collision between a pair of dead stars known as neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>The findings shed light on how the universe\u2019s heaviest elements are created, providing a missing piece of the puzzle of chemical element formation, researchers said in a new study describing the findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have detected a newly born heavy element in space, forged in the aftermath of a collision between a pair of dead stars known as neutron stars. The findings shed light on how the universe\u2019s heaviest elements are created, providing a missing piece of the puzzle of chemical element formation, researchers [\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-98495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98495","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=98495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}