{"id":153769,"date":"2026-08-30T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/30\/before-jwst-began-science-operations-a-dust-sized-particle-struck-one-segment-of-its-6-5-metre-mirror-at-hypervelocity-and-left-an-uncorrectable-deformation-damage-revealed-because-webb-can\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:30:00","slug":"before-jwst-began-science-operations-a-dust-sized-particle-struck-one-segment-of-its-6-5-metre-mirror-at-hypervelocity-and-left-an-uncorrectable-deformation-damage-revealed-because-webb-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/30\/before-jwst-began-science-operations-a-dust-sized-particle-struck-one-segment-of-its-6-5-metre-mirror-at-hypervelocity-and-left-an-uncorrectable-deformation-damage-revealed-because-webb-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Before JWST began science operations, a dust-sized particle struck one segment of its 6.5-metre mirror at hypervelocity and left an uncorrectable deformation \u2014 damage revealed because Webb can detect nanometre-scale changes in its own optical surface. &#8211; Space Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigAFBVV95cUxOR08xbDZmRmREYU56RkpRUjBhNWd4NDRmMlBTWG1CTmlncndhbVRhUVdVNTFKenZXZGR3UlVLeUxrWHU2V0VJcTFzZkRsYXFzM3JzZGVmRC1OUkN1aXdnZ05GMzhzYmx0cUhqNjg4cEJkanZfUVFDaXJ4R2xMYTF2RA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Before JWST began science operations, a dust-sized particle struck one segment of its 6.5-metre mirror at hypervelocity and left an uncorrectable deformation \u2014 damage revealed because Webb can detect nanometre-scale changes in its own optical surface.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Space Daily<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before JWST began science operations, a dust-sized particle struck one segment of its 6.5-metre mirror at hypervelocity and left an uncorrectable deformation \u2014 damage revealed&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/30\/before-jwst-began-science-operations-a-dust-sized-particle-struck-one-segment-of-its-6-5-metre-mirror-at-hypervelocity-and-left-an-uncorrectable-deformation-damage-revealed-because-webb-can\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}