{"id":8694,"date":"2022-08-24T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2022-08-24T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:44:07","slug":"why-the-new-james-webb-space-telescope-images-are-such-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8694","title":{"rendered":"Why the new James Webb Space Telescope images are such a big deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;What makes this image so mind-blowing is how small it is, and how large it is, at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s small in the sense that this image represents only a teensy tiny portion of the night sky. Imagine you are holding out a grain of sand at arm\u2019s length. The area of sky that grain covers \u2014 that\u2019s the size of the area captured in the above image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s huge in the sense that nearly every object in this image is a galaxy (besides the bright spiky starbursts, which are stars in the foreground). Think about that: In every pinprick of sky, there are thousands and thousands of galaxies, at least.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2022\/7\/12\/23205256\/james-webb-space-telescope-first-images-significance-nasa-jwst\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2022\/7\/12\/23205256\/james-webb-space-telescope-first-images-significance-nasa-jwst<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What makes this image so mind-blowing is how small it is, and how large it is, at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s small in the sense that this image represents only a teensy tiny portion of the night sky. Imagine you are holding out a grain of sand at arm\u2019s length. The area of sky that grain covers \u2014 that\u2019s the size of the area captured in the above image.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s huge in the sense that nearly every object in this image is a galaxy (besides the bright spiky starbursts, which are stars in the foreground). Think about that: In every pinprick of sky, there are thousands and thousands of galaxies, at least.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[811,954],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8695,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}