{"id":243593,"date":"2026-09-04T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-blip-on-a-telescope-in-a-colorado-parking-lot-bolstered-a-space-mission-that-has-found-thousands-of-planets-and-counting"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:05:25","slug":"a-blip-on-a-telescope-in-a-colorado-parking-lot-bolstered-a-space-mission-that-has-found-thousands-of-planets-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-blip-on-a-telescope-in-a-colorado-parking-lot-bolstered-a-space-mission-that-has-found-thousands-of-planets-and-counting","title":{"rendered":"A Blip on a Telescope in a Colorado Parking Lot Bolstered a Space Mission That Has Found Thousands of Planets \u2026 and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Td_YeAdygJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It\u2019s just one of the devices we\u2019ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to search our solar system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It\u2019s just one of the devices we\u2019ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to search our solar system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243593","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}