{"id":105003,"date":"2020-04-08T23:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/nasas-next-major-telescope-to-see-the-big-picture-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2020-04-08T23:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:51:21","slug":"nasas-next-major-telescope-to-see-the-big-picture-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/nasas-next-major-telescope-to-see-the-big-picture-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Next Major Telescope to See the Big Picture of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-next-major-telescope-to-see-the-big-picture-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA is beginning to design its next big astrophysics mission, a space telescope that will provide the largest picture of the universe ever seen with the same depth and clarity as the Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will function as Hubble\u2019s wide-eyed cousin. While just as sensitive as Hubble\u2019s cameras, WFIRST\u2019s 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument will image a sky area 100 times larger. This means a single WFIRST image will hold the equivalent detail of 100 pictures from Hubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 NASA is beginning to design its next big astrophysics mission, a space telescope that will provide the largest picture of the universe ever seen with the same depth and clarity as the Hubble Space Telescope. Scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will function as Hubble\u2019s wide-eyed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}