{"id":22408,"date":"2016-02-20T08:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-most-powerful-space-telescope-ever"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:52:36","slug":"the-most-powerful-space-telescope-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-most-powerful-space-telescope-ever","title":{"rendered":"The Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/player\/bcpid3389842829001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAABvb_NGE~,DMkZt2E6wO0t2IYdM7Od5C9sGUvvs1N3&bctid=4762216846001&secureConnections=true&secureHTMLConnections=true&autoStart=false&width=500&height=281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inside a <b><\/b>nondescript building at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA engineers are assembling the most powerful space telescope ever created. Once completed, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest space observatory in the known universe, <b><\/b>with<b><\/b> 100 times the seeing power of its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2018<b><\/b>, the Webb will be launched into deep space with an ambitious mission. \u201cSometimes as analytical astronomers we shy away from saying, \u2018We\u2019re searching for life,\u2019\u201d says the<b> <\/b>deputy project scientist Dr. Amber Straughn. \u201cBut, that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.\u201d <em>Atlantic<\/em><b><i><\/i> <\/b>senior editor Ross Andersen speaks <b><\/b>with the NASA team<b><\/b> seeking to answer some of our most fundamental questions: Where did we come from? Are there other life-sustaining<b> <\/b>planets out there? Are we alone in the universe?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/index\/463278\/the-most-powerful-space-telescope-ever\/?utm_source=SFFB\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside a nondescript building at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA engineers are assembling the most powerful space telescope ever created. Once completed, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest space observatory in the known universe, with 100 times the seeing power of its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62772,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions\/62772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}