{"id":240730,"date":"2026-07-13T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/extremely-large-telescope-reaches-a-major-milestone"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:13:02","slug":"extremely-large-telescope-reaches-a-major-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/extremely-large-telescope-reaches-a-major-milestone","title":{"rendered":"Extremely Large Telescope reaches a major milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extremely-large-telescope-reaches-a-major-milestone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Extremely Large Telescope just passed a serious milestone while coming together. But it\u2019s not done yet; the immense telescope is about to get even larger.<\/p>\n<p>The European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)\u2019s Extremely Large Telescope is under construction on a mountaintop in Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Extremely Large Telescope just passed a serious milestone while coming together. But it\u2019s not done yet; the immense telescope is about to get even larger. The European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO)\u2019s Extremely Large Telescope is under construction on a mountaintop in Chile.<\/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-240730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240730","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=240730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}