{"id":400,"date":"2004-08-09T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/hubble-imaging-spectrograph-dies\/"},"modified":"2004-08-09T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T00:30:00","slug":"hubble-imaging-spectrograph-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/hubble-imaging-spectrograph-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble imaging spectrograph dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haloscan.com\/comments\/seancarroll\/109206405679648108#61420\">Jennifer<\/a> mentions in the comments, one of the instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope has apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/space\/0,2697,64522,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2\">broken down<\/a>:  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stsci.edu\/instruments\/stis\/\">Imaging Spectrograph<\/a>, used to (obviously) take images with simultaneous spectral information, for example of black-hole candidates.  This is too bad but not a complete catastrophe (unless you had time on the instrument); it had already lived past its expected lifespan, and there are still three instruments working on HST.  Sure would be nice to have a servicing mission, though.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Jennifer mentions in the comments, one of the instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope has apparently broken down: the Imaging Spectrograph, used to (obviously) take images with simultaneous spectral information, for example of black-hole candidates. This is too bad but not a complete catastrophe (unless you had time on the instrument); it had already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}