{"id":236918,"date":"2026-05-11T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/this-telescope-spent-five-years-mapping-the-cosmos-and-captured-47-million-galaxies-in-the-process"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:08:00","slug":"this-telescope-spent-five-years-mapping-the-cosmos-and-captured-47-million-galaxies-in-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/this-telescope-spent-five-years-mapping-the-cosmos-and-captured-47-million-galaxies-in-the-process","title":{"rendered":"This Telescope Spent Five Years Mapping the Cosmos and Captured 47 Million Galaxies in the Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-telescope-spent-five-years-mapping-the-cosmos-and-captured-47-million-galaxies-in-the-process.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For five years, scientists quietly scanned the night sky with an instrument capable of capturing objects billions of light-years away. What they uncovered is now being described as the most ambitious cosmic map ever created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For five years, scientists quietly scanned the night sky with an instrument capable of capturing objects billions of light-years away. What they uncovered is now being described as the most ambitious cosmic map ever created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236918","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=236918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}