{"id":3923455,"date":"2026-01-06T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/platypus-objects-in-the-early-universe-look-like-stars-but-behave-like-galaxies\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:03:33","slug":"platypus-objects-in-the-early-universe-look-like-stars-but-behave-like-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/platypus-objects-in-the-early-universe-look-like-stars-but-behave-like-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Platypus&#8217; objects in the early universe look like stars but behave like galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Haojing Yan and his team at Mizzou&#8217;s College of Arts and Science spotted these strange objects, which seem like one galactic thing but have the unmistakable fingerprints of something else entirely.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-platypus-early-universe-stars-galaxies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Haojing Yan and his team at Mizzou&#8217;s College of Arts and Science spotted these strange objects, which seem like one galactic thing but have the unmistakable fingerprints of something else [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}