{"id":122211,"date":"2021-05-02T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-laser-to-help-clear-the-sky-of-space-debris"},"modified":"2021-05-02T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T00:23:13","slug":"new-laser-to-help-clear-the-sky-of-space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-laser-to-help-clear-the-sky-of-space-debris","title":{"rendered":"New Laser to Help Clear the Sky of Space Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-laser-to-help-clear-the-sky-of-space-debris2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have harnessed a technique that helps telescopes see objects in the night sky more clearly to fight against dangerous and costly space debris.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAdaptive optics is like removing the twinkle from the stars.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The researchers\u2019 work on adaptive optics \u2014 which removes the haziness caused by turbulence in the atmosphere \u2014 has been applied to a new \u2018guide star\u2019 laser for better identifying, tracking and safely moving space debris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have harnessed a technique that helps telescopes see objects in the night sky more clearly to fight against dangerous and costly space debris. \u201cAdaptive optics is like removing the twinkle from the stars.\u201d The researchers\u2019 work on adaptive optics \u2014 which removes the haziness caused by turbulence in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122211","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}