{"id":711695,"date":"2021-12-20T06:09:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T10:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711695"},"modified":"2021-12-20T06:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T10:09:03","slug":"christmas-eve-telescope-launch-has-astronomers-hoping-for-good-tidings-of-great-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711695","title":{"rendered":"Christmas eve telescope launch has astronomers hoping for good tidings of great joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/50732853538_7ff9098b27_c_wide-359fe9f0213c12027c722967450837d228774668.jpg\" alt=\"The telescope, shown during checkout tests in December 2020, before it was carefully packed up and sent to the launch site in French Guiana.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As they count down the hours to the highly anticipated launch of NASA&#8217;s powerful, $10-billion James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers hope for the best while fearing the worst.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/Chris Gunn)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/npr-rss-pixel-8.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/20\/1065254032\/christmas-eve-telescope-launch-has-astronomers-hoping-for-good-tidings-of-great-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas eve telescope launch has astronomers hoping for good tidings of great joy<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they count down the hours to the highly anticipated launch of NASA&#8217;s powerful, $10-billion James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers hope for the best while fearing the worst. (Image credit:&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711695","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=711695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}