{"id":3925425,"date":"2026-04-12T12:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-find-the-strongest-evidence-yet-for-the-universes-first-stars\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:01:51","slug":"astronomers-find-the-strongest-evidence-yet-for-the-universes-first-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astronomers-find-the-strongest-evidence-yet-for-the-universes-first-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find the strongest evidence yet for the universe&#8217;s first stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For decades, astronomers were only able to study the universe&#8217;s very first stars using theoretical models. Now, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed what may be the most compelling evidence to date for these ancient &#8220;Population III&#8221; stars, finding them clustered around a small companion object that formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-astronomers-strongest-evidence-universe-stars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, astronomers were only able to study the universe&#8217;s very first stars using theoretical models. Now, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed what may be the most compelling evidence to date for these ancient &#8220;Population III&#8221; stars, finding them clustered around a small companion object that formed just 400 million [&#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-3925425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925425","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=3925425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}