{"id":449865,"date":"2026-05-15T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449865\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:58:08","slug":"japanese-researchers-gain-glimpse-into-the-universes-first-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449865\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese researchers gain glimpse into the universe\u2019s first stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny galaxy discovered more than 13 billion light-years from Earth may offer the clearest evidence yet of the universe\u2019s earliest stars, according to a recent study by a Japanese-led research team.<\/p>\n<p>An international research team led by researchers from Kanazawa University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe an ultra-faint galaxy known as LAP1-B, dating to roughly 800 million years after the Big Bang. The study was published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>The team observed the tiny galaxy using gravitational lensing, a phenomenon in which the gravity of a massive galaxy cluster acts as a lens to magnify the light from a more distant object behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tiny galaxy discovered more than 13 billion light-years from Earth may offer the clearest evidence yet of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[908,61,60,195477,128899,82,247],"class_list":["post-449865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kanazawa-university","tag-national-astronomical-observatory-of-japan","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}