{"id":796,"date":"2003-08-26T04:19:17","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T04:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:20","slug":"hello-darkness-my-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"hello, darkness, my old friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers presented yet more evidence in last  week&#8217;s <em>Monthly Notices<\/em> of the Royal Astronomical Society that the  universe is eventually going to end up a dark, cold place, the stars  winking out one by one. Research student Ben Panter and professor Alan  Heavens of Edinburgh University&#8217;s Institute of Astronomy, along with the  University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Raul Jimenez have calculated that the rate  of star formation has been in decline for about 6 billion years, from  about the time our own sun was born. The team analyzed starlight from  almost 40,000 galaxies to find out how many recently formed stars there  were during different periods of the universe&#8217;s 14-billion-year-old  existence. More stars are dying than being born, a definite population  bust. Heavens stated in a press release: &#8220;Our analysis confirms that the  age of star formation is drawing to a close.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 8\/26\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers presented yet more evidence in last week&#8217;s Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that the universe is eventually going to end up a dark, cold place, the stars winking out one by one. Research student Ben Panter and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}