{"id":136044,"date":"2022-02-25T07:43:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/webb-space-telescope-team-brings-18-dots-of-starlight-into-hexagonal-formation"},"modified":"2022-02-25T07:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:43:01","slug":"webb-space-telescope-team-brings-18-dots-of-starlight-into-hexagonal-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/webb-space-telescope-team-brings-18-dots-of-starlight-into-hexagonal-formation","title":{"rendered":"Webb Space Telescope Team Brings 18 Dots of Starlight Into Hexagonal Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-space-telescope-team-brings-18-dots-of-starlight-into-hexagonal-formation.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Webb team continues to make progress in aligning the observatory\u2019s mirrors. Engineers have completed the first stage in <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/photons-incoming-team-begins-aligning-the-webb-space-telescope\/\">this process<\/a>, called \u201cSegment Image Identification.\u201d The resulting image shows that the team has moved each of Webb\u2019s 18 primary mirror segments to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/10-billion-webb-space-telescope-sees-its-first-star-and-captures-a-brilliant-selfie\/\">18 unfocused copies of a single star<\/a> into a planned hexagonal formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Webb team continues to make progress in aligning the observatory\u2019s mirrors. Engineers have completed the first stage in this process, called \u201cSegment Image Identification.\u201d The resulting image shows that the team has moved each of Webb\u2019s 18 primary mirror segments to bring 18 unfocused copies of a single star into a planned hexagonal formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}