{"id":186914,"date":"2021-11-03T19:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T19:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/water-has-been-detected-in-a-galaxy-roughly-12-8-billion-light-years-away-researchers-say"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:10:08","slug":"water-has-been-detected-in-a-galaxy-roughly-12-8-billion-light-years-away-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/water-has-been-detected-in-a-galaxy-roughly-12-8-billion-light-years-away-researchers-say","title":{"rendered":"Water has been detected in a galaxy roughly 12.8 billion light years away, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists said they have discovered evidence of water in a galaxy roughly 12.8 billion light-years from Earth, making it one of the most distant discoveries of water in the universe. The properties of the galaxy, named&nbsp;SPT0311-58, were discovered by scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array in Chile. The galaxy had first been discovered at the observatory in 2017 . Not only were water molecules found,&nbsp;but the galaxy where it was found comes from the early parts of the universe, when it was only 780 million years old. Scientists said in 2020 that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. Sreevani Jarugula,&nbsp;an&nbsp;astronomer at the&nbsp;University of Illinois and lead investigator, said carbon dioxide also was detected in the massive galaxy. With the presence of oxygen and carbon, something Jarugula said is &#8220;critical to life,&#8221; the galaxy proves molecular life began not too long after the Big Bang, the gigantic explosion that scientists believe led<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The galaxy, SPT0311-58, had evidence of water when the universe was just 780 million years old, perplexing scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,1],"tags":[184,185],"class_list":["post-186914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-news","tag-astronomy","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}