{"id":426914,"date":"2026-05-14T07:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:16:26","slug":"astronomers-stunned-by-galactic-building-blocks-never-seen-before-in-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426914\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers stunned by &#8220;galactic building blocks&#8221; never seen before in the cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tAstronomers stunned by &#8220;galactic building blocks&#8221; never seen before in the cosmos &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>May 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1280\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/astronomers-stunned-by-galactic-building-blocks-never-seen-before-in-the-cosmos.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    The galaxy cluster MACS J1423, pictured here, acts as a gravitational lens, allowing astronomers to study distant galaxies like Firefly Sparkle in otherwise inaccessible detail. \u00a9 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, C. Willott (NRC-Canada), L. Mowla (Wellesley College), K. Iyer (Columbia)<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronomers stunned by &#8220;galactic building blocks&#8221; never seen before in the cosmos &#8211; Futura-Sciences May 13, 2026 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-426914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}