{"id":760842,"date":"2023-07-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760842"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:00:00","slug":"webb-sees-carbon-rich-dust-grains-in-the-first-billion-years-of-cosmic-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760842","title":{"rendered":"Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Galaxy_JADES-GS-z6_in_the_GOODS-S_field_JADES_NIRCam_image_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Galaxy JADES-GS-z6 in the GOODS-S field: JADES (NIRCam image)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains at redshift ~ 7\u00a0<a href=\"#1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[1]<\/a>, which is roughly equivalent to one billion years after the birth of the Universe\u00a0<a href=\"#2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">[2]<\/a>. Similar observational signatures have been observed in the much more recent Universe, attributed to complex, carbon-based molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). It is not thought likely, however, that PAHs would have developed within the first billion years of cosmic time.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/Webb_sees_carbon-rich_dust_grains_in_the_first_billion_years_of_cosmic_time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains at redshift ~ 7\u00a0[1], which is roughly equivalent to one billion&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760843,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/760843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}