{"id":801011,"date":"2026-03-05T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801011"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:57:31","slug":"esa-james-webb-space-telescope-spots-faint-asteroid-2024-yr4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801011","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; James Webb Space Telescope spots faint asteroid 2024 YR4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope successfully observed the extremely faint near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 (circled in green)\u00a0on 26 February 2026 with its\u00a0Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam).<\/p>\n<p>By analysing the asteroid\u2019s position relative to \u00a0background stars whose locations are very well known, astronomers were able to rule out any chance that the asteroid could impact Earth\u2019s Moon on 22 December 2032.<\/p>\n<p><i>Click here to read the full news release<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/03\/James_Webb_Space_Telescope_spots_faint_asteroid_2024_YR4_-_26_February_2026?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope successfully observed the extremely faint near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 (circled in green)\u00a0on 26 February 2026 with its\u00a0Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). By analysing the asteroid\u2019s position&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801011","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=801011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}