{"id":580273,"date":"2026-05-12T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580273\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:38:14","slug":"scientists-stunned-students-discover-the-purest-star-born-right-after-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/580273\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists stunned: students discover the purest star born right after the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tScientists stunned: students discover the purest star born right after the Big Bang &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>May 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            4 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/scientists-stunned-students-discover-the-purest-star-born-right-after-the-big-bang.webp.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Main image: Students Ha Do (left) and Natalie Orrantia (right) observe the star Ancient Immigrant. Inset, to the left of the top image: The Irenee du Pont telescope houses the Southern Sky Instrument (SSI) V, which performs a rapid survey of the cosmos. This telescope has been upgraded with a new suite of instruments and a new robotic focal plane, enabling the operation of the SSI V. \u00a9 Photos: Main image: Ha Do (University of Chicago); Inset: SDSS Collaboration<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists stunned: students discover the purest star born right after the Big Bang &#8211; Futura-Sciences May 12, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-580273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}