{"id":740088,"date":"2022-11-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=740088"},"modified":"2022-11-08T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T10:00:00","slug":"how-miri-became-webbs-coolest-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=740088","title":{"rendered":"How MIRI became Webb\u2019s coolest instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Webb_s_portrait_of_the_Pillars_of_Creation_MIRI_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> is widely referred to as the successor to the <a href=\"https:\/\/esahubble.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>. In reality, it is the successor to a lot more than that. With the inclusion of the <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/MIRI_factsheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI)<\/a>, Webb also became a successor to infrared space telescopes such as <a href=\"\/183467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESA\u2019s Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/spitzer\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope<\/a>.<\/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\/How_MIRI_became_Webb_s_coolest_instrument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How MIRI became Webb\u2019s coolest instrument<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is widely referred to as the successor to the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In reality, it is the successor to a lot more than&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740089,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740088","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\/740088","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=740088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/740089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}