{"id":183495,"date":"2024-02-23T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/astronomers-used-jwst-to-finally-solve-a-37-year-mystery-over-one-of-the-brightest-cosmic-explosions-ever-seen-in-modern-history"},"modified":"2024-02-23T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T05:23:22","slug":"astronomers-used-jwst-to-finally-solve-a-37-year-mystery-over-one-of-the-brightest-cosmic-explosions-ever-seen-in-modern-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/astronomers-used-jwst-to-finally-solve-a-37-year-mystery-over-one-of-the-brightest-cosmic-explosions-ever-seen-in-modern-history","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers used JWST to finally solve a 37-year mystery over one of the brightest cosmic explosions ever seen in modern history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-used-jwst-to-finally-solve-a-37-year-mystery-over-one-of-the-brightest-cosmic-explosions-ever-seen-in-modern-history2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Hunting for a neutron star<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To discover what lies at the center of SN 1987A, astronomers needed a telescope big enough and advanced enough to detect evidence of radiation from a hidden neutron star.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/james-webb-telescope-new-image-milky-way-colorful-heart-2023-11\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>: the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space that is already revolutionizing our understanding of the universe within its first two years of operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting for a neutron star To discover what lies at the center of SN 1987A, astronomers needed a telescope big enough and advanced enough to detect evidence of radiation from a hidden neutron star. Enter the James Webb Space Telescope: the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space that is already revolutionizing our understanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183495","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}