{"id":137386,"date":"2022-03-26T17:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T00:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/engage-webb-telescope-prepares-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-galactic-evolution"},"modified":"2022-03-26T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T00:02:18","slug":"engage-webb-telescope-prepares-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-galactic-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/engage-webb-telescope-prepares-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-galactic-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Engage! Webb Telescope prepares to unlock the secrets of galactic evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engage-webb-telescope-prepares-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-galactic-evolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first galaxies in the universe are a mystery to us \u2014 but that could soon change.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The cosmos has come a long way (pun intended). But the most fantastic story of all time isn\u2019t fully understood \u2014 especially the early chapters, \u2018written\u2019 in history during the first two to three hundred million years of the universe\u2019s 13.8 billion-year existence.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/james-webb-space-telescope\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> could be the key. The observatory can look about three times as far back in time than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/hubble-black-album\">iconic Hubble<\/a>. The Webb will detect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/how-will-webb-engineers-color-code-images\">infrared wavelengths<\/a> long enough to pierce through the dense smog of all the light and dust that sits between Earth and the furthest galactic posts, revealing information about the ancient universe where these wavelengths began their journey through space billions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Although not quite yet ready to collect data, the Webb Telescope promises a level of perception made possible by its four instruments. These instruments can operate at the same time to siphon observations of objects like galaxies \u2014 maximizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/webb\/2022\/03\/17\/webb-begins-multi-instrument-alignment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">efficiency of the telescope<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first galaxies in the universe are a mystery to us \u2014 but that could soon change. The cosmos has come a long way (pun intended). But the most fantastic story of all time isn\u2019t fully understood \u2014 especially the early chapters, \u2018written\u2019 in history during the first two to three hundred million years of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137386","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}