{"id":139820,"date":"2022-05-25T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T01:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/james-webb-space-telescope-practices-tracking-an-asteroid-for-the-1st-time"},"modified":"2022-05-25T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T01:02:19","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-practices-tracking-an-asteroid-for-the-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/james-webb-space-telescope-practices-tracking-an-asteroid-for-the-1st-time","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope practices tracking an asteroid for the 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-practices-tracking-an-asteroid-for-the-1st-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Webb going through the paces!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s next-generation space observatory successfully watched a moving asteroid as the telescope inches towards the end of its six-month commissioning period.<\/p>\n<p>The successful tracking of a nearby object shows that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/21925-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst.html\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> can keep a watch on solar system objects as well as the distant galaxies, stars and other faraway objects it is expected to observe in its perhaps 20-year lifespan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webb going through the paces! NASA\u2019s next-generation space observatory successfully watched a moving asteroid as the telescope inches towards the end of its six-month commissioning period. The successful tracking of a nearby object shows that the James Webb Space Telescope can keep a watch on solar system objects as well as the distant galaxies, stars [\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-139820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139820","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=139820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}