{"id":711974,"date":"2021-12-21T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711974"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:00:36","slug":"why-the-most-powerful-space-telescope-ever-needs-to-be-kept-really-really-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711974","title":{"rendered":"Why the most powerful space telescope ever needs to be kept really, really cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/51412207042_751ae819e7_k_wide-935900ceb0176111ad835744010fabdb2b2fa5d6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope will give a glimpse of the earliest galaxies formed after the Big Bang \u2014 but only if the telescope is kept frigid. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s a tennis court-sized sunshield.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA GSFC\/CIL\/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/npr-rss-pixel-10.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/21\/1064183308\/james-webb-space-telescope-sunshield-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why the most powerful space telescope ever needs to be kept really, really cold<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope will give a glimpse of the earliest galaxies formed after the Big Bang \u2014 but only if the telescope is kept frigid. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s&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-711974","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\/711974","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=711974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711974\/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=711974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}