{"id":210405,"date":"2024-03-05T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/jwst-will-officially-begin-searching-for-exomoons-around-other-planets\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:12","slug":"jwst-will-officially-begin-searching-for-exomoons-around-other-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/jwst-will-officially-begin-searching-for-exomoons-around-other-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"JWST will officially begin searching for exomoons around other planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/05150152\/SEI_194609546.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2420638 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"New Scientist Default Image\" width=\"1349\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"NASA\" data-caption=\"The James Webb Space Telescope is the first instrument capable of detecting exomoons conclusively\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The James Webb Space Telescope is the first instrument capable of detecting exomoons conclusively<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers will have their best shot yet at finding exomoons \u2013 alien moons that orbit planets beyond the solar system \u2013 after efforts to look for them were picked for the next phase of observations with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/james-webb-space-telescope-jwst\/\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> (JWST).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2420632-jwst-will-officially-begin-searching-for-exomoons-around-other-planets\/\">Exomoons<\/a> may be interesting locations to look for life, but no definitive detection of one has ever been made. JWST, which launched in 2021, is the first telescope in history capable of truly confirming their existence.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2420632-jwst-will-officially-begin-searching-for-exomoons-around-other-planets\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The James Webb Space Telescope is the first instrument capable of detecting exomoons conclusively NASA Astronomers will have their best shot yet at finding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340084,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210405\/revisions\/340084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}