{"id":78990,"date":"2018-05-25T22:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T05:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/in-s-africa-a-unique-telescope-link-up-scans-deep-space"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:01:02","slug":"in-s-africa-a-unique-telescope-link-up-scans-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/in-s-africa-a-unique-telescope-link-up-scans-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"In S.Africa, a unique telescope link-up scans deep space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-s-africa-a-unique-telescope-link-up-scans-deep-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in South Africa on Friday launched the world\u2019s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining \u201ceyes and ears\u201d to try to unravel the secrets of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The device forms part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the remote Karoo desert, which will be the world\u2019s most powerful radio telescope system.<\/p>\n<p>The latest move combines the new optical telescope MeerLITCH \u2014 Dutch for \u2018more light\u2019 \u2014 with the recently-completed 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope, located 200 kilometres (125 miles) away.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.france24.com\/en\/20180525-safrica-unique-telescope-link-scans-deep-space\">http:\/\/m.france24.com\/en\/20180525-safrica-unique-telescope-link-scans-deep-space<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in South Africa on Friday launched the world\u2019s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining \u201ceyes and ears\u201d to try to unravel the secrets of the universe. The device forms part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the remote Karoo desert, which will be the world\u2019s most powerful radio telescope [\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-78990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78990","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=78990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79003,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78990\/revisions\/79003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}