{"id":138982,"date":"2022-05-05T23:02:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/huzzah-the-james-webb-is-fully-aligned-and-ready-to-spy-on-deep-space"},"modified":"2022-05-05T23:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T04:02:16","slug":"huzzah-the-james-webb-is-fully-aligned-and-ready-to-spy-on-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/huzzah-the-james-webb-is-fully-aligned-and-ready-to-spy-on-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"Huzzah! The James Webb Is Fully Aligned and Ready to Spy on Deep Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/huzzah-the-james-webb-is-fully-aligned-and-ready-to-spy-on-deep-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stars are officially aligned for NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>The extremely expensive space observatory <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/webb\/2022\/04\/28\/nasas-webb-in-full-focus-ready-for-instrument-commissioning\/\" class=\"\">has finished its alignment phase<\/a>, with scientists confirming that it\u2019s almost ready to kick off official scientific operations later this year.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the $10 billion telescope is on the home stretch, nearing its biggest milestone yet. NASA also released a slew of stunning new sample images taken by the telescope, showing the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of our Milky Way \u2014 stunning previews, hopefully, for a slew of imagery we\u2019ll see from the \u2018scope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stars are officially aligned for NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope. The extremely expensive space observatory has finished its alignment phase, with scientists confirming that it\u2019s almost ready to kick off official scientific operations later this year. In other words, the $10 billion telescope is on the home stretch, nearing its biggest milestone yet. NASA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138982","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=138982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}