{"id":212324,"date":"2025-04-24T13:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-webb-telescope-is-making-incredible-discoveries-it-may-go-dark"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:24:49","slug":"the-webb-telescope-is-making-incredible-discoveries-it-may-go-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-webb-telescope-is-making-incredible-discoveries-it-may-go-dark","title":{"rendered":"The Webb Telescope is making incredible discoveries: It may go dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-webb-telescope-is-making-incredible-discoveries-it-may-go-dark.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even in the depths of space, there\u2019s no escape from politics.<\/p>\n<p>The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is literally parked 1 million miles away. In the nearly three years since it became operational, \u201cWebb,\u201d as it\u2019s called, has made some incredible findings.<\/p>\n<p>Webb uses infrared scanning to show how stars and galaxies form, and to study the atmospheres of distant planets. Its capabilities complement the aging Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits Earth at an altitude of only 340 miles or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even in the depths of space, there\u2019s no escape from politics. The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is literally parked 1 million miles away. In the nearly three years since it became operational, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212324","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}