{"id":140129,"date":"2022-06-03T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-new-cosmic-dawn-the-webb-telescopes-first-color-images-are-arriving-soon"},"modified":"2022-06-03T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T23:22:19","slug":"a-new-cosmic-dawn-the-webb-telescopes-first-color-images-are-arriving-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-new-cosmic-dawn-the-webb-telescopes-first-color-images-are-arriving-soon","title":{"rendered":"A new cosmic dawn: The Webb Telescope\u2019s first color images are arriving soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-cosmic-dawn-the-webb-telescopes-first-color-images-are-arriving-soon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just human, and we cannot predict what the universe is going to tell us.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s the moment we have all been waiting for: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/james-webb-space-telescope\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> will make its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2022\/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">first scientific observations<\/a> of the universe in the coming weeks. The first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/james-webb-space-telescope-first-images\">full-color images<\/a> will drop on July 12, 2022, along with spectroscopic data.<\/p>\n<p>This is the crescendo moment in a scientific symphony that has been tuning up for the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>What the images will show is somewhat a mystery \u2014so <em>Inverse <\/em>spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stsci.edu\/~pontoppi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Klaus Pontoppidan<\/a>, Project Scientist with the Webb Mission Office at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Technical PI for Webb\u2019s Early Release Observations, to try and glean some clues to what they will reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just human, and we cannot predict what the universe is going to tell us.\u201d It\u2019s the moment we have all been waiting for: The James Webb Space Telescope will make its first scientific observations of the universe in the coming weeks. The first full-color images will drop on July 12, 2022, along with spectroscopic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140129","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=140129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}