{"id":3928777,"date":"2026-11-06T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-galaxy-nicknamed-misty-moons-offers-a-glimpse-of-early-star-formation\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:00:07","slug":"a-galaxy-nicknamed-misty-moons-offers-a-glimpse-of-early-star-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-galaxy-nicknamed-misty-moons-offers-a-glimpse-of-early-star-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"A galaxy nicknamed Misty Moons offers a glimpse of early star formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Gravitational lensing is one of astronomy&#8217;s best tricks for seeing the early universe. When a massive galaxy cluster sits in between the observer and a distant object, its gravity bends and magnifies the distant object&#8217;s light, acting like a giant natural magnifying glass. Galaxies that would otherwise be too faint to spot suddenly come into view because of gravitational lensing.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-galaxy-nicknamed-misty-moons-glimpse.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravitational lensing is one of astronomy&#8217;s best tricks for seeing the early universe. When a massive galaxy cluster sits in between the observer and a distant object, its gravity bends and magnifies the distant object&#8217;s light, acting like a giant natural magnifying glass. Galaxies that would otherwise be too faint to spot suddenly come into [&#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-3928777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}