{"id":153904,"date":"2022-12-30T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/china-reveals-ambitious-plans-for-asias-largest-optical-telescope"},"modified":"2022-12-30T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:31:15","slug":"china-reveals-ambitious-plans-for-asias-largest-optical-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/china-reveals-ambitious-plans-for-asias-largest-optical-telescope","title":{"rendered":"China reveals ambitious plans for Asia\u2019s largest optical telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-reveals-ambitious-plans-for-asias-largest-optical-telescope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nation wants to compete with NASA\u2019S James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Peking University has ambitious plans to build the largest optical telescope in Asia, according to an article by <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>The Expanding Aperture Segmented Telescope<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The new telescope will have an aperture of 19.7 feet (6 meters) by 2024 while its mirror will be expanded to 26.2 feet (8 m) by 2030. The project in English is called the Expanding Aperture Segmented Telescope (EAST) and <a href=\"http:\/\/astro.pku.edu.cn\/info\/1056\/1795.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to a statement<\/a> \u201cwill greatly improve China\u2019s observation capabilities in optical astronomy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation wants to compete with NASA\u2019S James Webb Space Telescope. Peking University has ambitious plans to build the largest optical telescope in Asia, according to an article by Space.com The Expanding Aperture Segmented Telescope The new telescope will have an aperture of 19.7 feet (6 meters) by 2024 while its mirror will be expanded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153904","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}