{"id":137956,"date":"2022-04-10T22:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T03:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/webb-space-telescopes-cool-view-on-how-stars-and-planets-form"},"modified":"2022-04-10T22:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T03:03:24","slug":"webb-space-telescopes-cool-view-on-how-stars-and-planets-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/webb-space-telescopes-cool-view-on-how-stars-and-planets-form","title":{"rendered":"Webb Space Telescope\u2019s Cool View on How Stars and Planets Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-space-telescopes-cool-view-on-how-stars-and-planets-form.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ongoing success of the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/webb-space-telescope-begins-multi-instrument-alignment\/\">multi-instrument optics alignment<\/a> for NASA \u2019s Webb telescope\u2019s near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team to <em>chill<\/em> as we carefully monitor the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/webb-space-telescopes-mid-infrared-instrument-cooldown-continues\/\">cooling<\/a> of the <a title=\"https:\/\/webb.nasa.gov\/content\/observatory\/instruments\/miri.html\" href=\"https:\/\/webb.nasa.gov\/content\/observatory\/instruments\/miri.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Link Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI)\">Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI)<\/a> down to its final operating temperature of less than 7 kelvins (&minus;447 degrees Fahrenheit 0, or-266 degrees Celsius). We are continuing other activities during this slow cooldown which include monitoring the near-infrared instruments. As MIRI cools, other major components of the observatory, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/webb.nasa.gov\/content\/webbLaunch\/whereIsWebb.html\">backplane and mirrors<\/a>, also continue to cool and are approaching their operational temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Webb team did a station-keeping thruster burn to maintain Webb\u2019s position in orbit around the second Lagrange point. This was the second burn since <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/webb-space-telescope-reaches-destination-a-million-miles-from-earth-achieves-halo-orbit-around-l2\/\">Webb\u2019s arrival at its final orbit in January<\/a>; these burns will continue periodically throughout the lifetime of the mission.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few weeks, we have been sharing some of Webb\u2019s anticipated science, beginning with the study of the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/webb-space-telescope-will-use-spectroscopy-to-study-composition-of-distant-galaxies\/\">first stars and galaxies in the early universe<\/a>. Today, we will see how Webb will peer within our own Milky Way galaxy at places where stars and planets form. Klaus Pontoppidan, the Space Telescope Science Institute project scientist for Webbthe <em>cool<\/em> science planned for star and planet formation with Webb:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing success of the multi-instrument optics alignment for NASA \u2019s Webb telescope\u2019s near-infrared instruments has moved the attention of the commissioning team to chill as we carefully monitor the cooling of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) down to its final operating temperature of less than 7 kelvins (\u2212447 degrees Fahrenheit 0, or-266 degrees Celsius). We [\u2026]<\/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-137956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137956","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=137956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}