{"id":137543,"date":"2022-09-20T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/faith-the-wonders-of-a-telescope-and-our-search-for-meaning-connect-us"},"modified":"2022-09-20T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:58:18","slug":"faith-the-wonders-of-a-telescope-and-our-search-for-meaning-connect-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/faith-the-wonders-of-a-telescope-and-our-search-for-meaning-connect-us","title":{"rendered":"Faith: The wonders of a telescope and our search for meaning connect us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sitaron se aage jahan aur bhi hai,&#8221; these lines written by the very perceptive Urdu poet and philosopher Allama Iqbal, around 100 years ago, translate to &#8220;There are distant worlds beyond our stars.&#8221; Interestingly, this poetic phrase came to my mind in pure awe the day NASA released their first 5 images from James Webb Telescope in July this year.Many of us were sharing these images and had thought-provoking discussions on what they meant. They showed us details on how a star is born, to the death of a star in the southern ring, to dancing galaxies. Some of these pictures were familiar from the Hubble space telescope, but the clarity and vividness of colors that the telescope provided were breathtaking and reverential at the same time.I first learned about the telescope during Austin&#8217;s SXSW 2017, when NASA and Northrop Grumman introduced it at the conference. It is an engineering marvel that looks like a divine ship floating through space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sitaron se aage jahan aur bhi hai,&#8221; these lines written by the very perceptive Urdu poet and philosopher Allama Iqbal, around 100 years ago, translate to &#8220;There are distant worlds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,291],"tags":[69,55],"class_list":["post-137543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-religion","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}