{"id":139146,"date":"2022-05-10T19:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/astronomers-discover-asteroid-treasure-trove-in-old-hubble-space-telescope-data"},"modified":"2022-05-10T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:02:49","slug":"astronomers-discover-asteroid-treasure-trove-in-old-hubble-space-telescope-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/astronomers-discover-asteroid-treasure-trove-in-old-hubble-space-telescope-data","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover asteroid treasure trove in old Hubble Space Telescope data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-asteroid-treasure-trove-in-old-hubble-space-telescope-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have revealed the trails of nearly 1,500 new asteroids hidden in data gathered by NASA\u2019s most venerable space telescope.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, astronomers and a team of amateur scientists have worked together to comb through archival data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15892-hubble-space-telescope.html\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>. The project began on International Asteroid Day in 2019, when a team of astronomers launched the \u201cHubble Asteroid Hunter\u201d project on Zooniverse, a popular platform for crowdsourcing science. The project\u2019s aim was to identify<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html\"> asteroids<\/a> in old data from Hubble; signals that, in other studies, might have just been filtered out as noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have revealed the trails of nearly 1,500 new asteroids hidden in data gathered by NASA\u2019s most venerable space telescope. In a new study, astronomers and a team of amateur scientists have worked together to comb through archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The project began on International Asteroid Day in 2019, when a [\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-139146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139146","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=139146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}