{"id":138125,"date":"2022-04-14T17:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-going-to-stare-straight-into-jupiter"},"modified":"2022-04-14T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:04:11","slug":"the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-going-to-stare-straight-into-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-going-to-stare-straight-into-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"The James Webb Space Telescope Is Going to Stare Straight Into Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-going-to-stare-straight-into-jupiter3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After launching late last year, NASA\u2019s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope is finally getting ready to fixate its numerous golden mirrors on distant targets.<\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly, though, one of its 13 early targets isn\u2019t so distant at all \u2014 at least in the grand scheme of things. It\u2019ll be looking at Jupiter, the iconic gas giant in our own star system. Of course, we already know quite a bit about the planet already\u2014 so why investigate it using the JWST if it can have a closer look at far more distant objects?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been there with several spacecraft and have observed the planet with Hubble and many ground-based telescopes at wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum (from the UV to meters wavelengths),\u201d Berkeley astronomer Imke de Pater, leader of the Jupiter observation team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/news\/james-webb-first-targets-jupiter\/\" class=\"\">told <em>Digital Trends<\/em><\/a>, \u201cso we\u2019ve learned a tremendous amount about Jupiter itself, its atmosphere, interior, and about its moons and rings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After launching late last year, NASA\u2019s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope is finally getting ready to fixate its numerous golden mirrors on distant targets. Intriguingly, though, one of its 13 early targets isn\u2019t so distant at all \u2014 at least in the grand scheme of things. It\u2019ll be looking at Jupiter, the iconic gas giant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138125","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}