{"id":202134,"date":"2024-12-22T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/season-5-episode-31-meet-a-webb-scientist-who-looks-back-in-time"},"modified":"2024-12-22T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:31:07","slug":"season-5-episode-31-meet-a-webb-scientist-who-looks-back-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/season-5-episode-31-meet-a-webb-scientist-who-looks-back-in-time","title":{"rendered":"Season 5, Episode 31: Meet a Webb Scientist Who Looks Back in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/season-5-episode-31-meet-a-webb-scientist-who-looks-back-in-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five years ago, our Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE, was launched! The satellite was a crucial stepping stone in understanding the cosmic microwave background \u2014 the afterglow of the earliest moments of our universe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Take a 360 Tour of COBE&#039;s Cosmic Baby Picture\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ef3QboVd83Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Launched from what\u2019s now Vandenberg Space Force Base on Nov. 18, 1989, COBE carried three instruments to space to measure microwave and infrared light across the whole sky. COBE\u2019s observations helped us learn how our universe started and evolved.<\/p>\n<p>COBE discovered that the oldest light in the universe contained tiny temperature variations (red indicates hotter regions, blue colder). These were the seeds for the gravitational formation of structures of galaxies seen in the universe today.<\/p>\n<p>S James Webb Space Telescope: + There are still many questions we want to answer about the early universe, and our missions continue to study it and refine our understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Explore the universe\u2019s baby picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/3VPXWgF\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/3VPXWgF<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/season-5-episode-31-meet-a-webb-scientist-who-looks-back-in-time\">Continue reading \u201cSeason 5, Episode 31: Meet a Webb Scientist Who Looks Back in Time\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five years ago, our Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE, was launched! The satellite was a crucial stepping stone in understanding the cosmic microwave background \u2014 the afterglow of the earliest moments of our universe. Launched from what\u2019s now Vandenberg Space Force Base on Nov. 18, 1989, COBE carried three instruments to space to measure microwave [\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-202134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202134","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=202134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}