{"id":730360,"date":"2022-07-21T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730360"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:16:04","slug":"you-can-see-where-the-webb-telescope-took-a-direct-hit-from-a-micrometeorite-on-one-of-its-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=730360","title":{"rendered":"You can see where the Webb Telescope took a direct hit from a micrometeorite on one of its mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is still reeling from the release of the James Webb Space Telescope&#8217;s (JWST) first images. These provided a comprehensive overview of the kind of science operations that Webb will conduct over its 20-year mission. They included the most sensitive and detailed look at some iconic astronomical objects, spectra from an exoplanet atmosphere, and a deep field view of some of the most distant galaxies in the universe. Since their release, we&#8217;ve also been treated to glimpses of objects in the solar system captured by Webb&#8217;s infrared instruments.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-07-webb-telescope-micrometeorite-mirrors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">You can see where the Webb Telescope took a direct hit from a micrometeorite on one of its mirrors<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is still reeling from the release of the James Webb Space Telescope&#8217;s (JWST) first images. These provided a comprehensive overview of the kind of science operations that Webb&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730360","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=730360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730360\/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=730360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}