{"id":1716,"date":"2025-08-17T20:11:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:43:55","slug":"earendel-farthest-and-earliest-star-ever-seen-might-not-be-what-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/earendel-farthest-and-earliest-star-ever-seen-might-not-be-what-it-seems\/","title":{"rendered":"Earendel, farthest and earliest star ever seen, might not be what it seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/earendel-farthest-and-earliest-star-ever-seen-might-not-be-w_9fw8.640.jpg\">A new study suggests an alternate explanation.<\/p>\n<p>A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic objects allowed a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\" target=\"_blank\">space<\/a><\/u> telescope to see a star that existed when the universe was only 900 million years old. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s<\/a> Hubble observatory made the discovery in 2022, making it the farthest and earliest star ever \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests an alternate explanation. A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic objects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}