{"id":81911,"date":"2018-08-19T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/a-1-billion-telescope-that-will-take-pictures-10-times-sharper-than-hubbles-is-now-officially-under-way"},"modified":"2018-08-19T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:22:41","slug":"a-1-billion-telescope-that-will-take-pictures-10-times-sharper-than-hubbles-is-now-officially-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/a-1-billion-telescope-that-will-take-pictures-10-times-sharper-than-hubbles-is-now-officially-under-way","title":{"rendered":"A $1 Billion Telescope That Will Take Pictures 10 Times Sharper Than Hubble\u2019s Is Now Officially Under Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-1-billion-telescope-that-will-take-pictures-10-times-sharper-than-hubbles-is-now-officially-under-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In astronomy, cutting-edge technology often begins with a bunch of bulldozers, busted rocks, and dump trucks.<\/p>\n<p>So it goes with the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which will be the world\u2019s largest and most powerful when it sees \u201cfirst light\u201d in 2024. Astronomers hope to use the huge observatory to study the ancient universe and look for signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/aliens\">alien life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Construction crews atop a Chilean mountain range broke ground for the $US1 billion project on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-1-billion-telescope-that-will-take-pictures-10x-sharper-than-hubble-s-is-now-officially-under-construction\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-1-billion-telescope-that-will...nstruction<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In astronomy, cutting-edge technology often begins with a bunch of bulldozers, busted rocks, and dump trucks. So it goes with the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which will be the world\u2019s largest and most powerful when it sees \u201cfirst light\u201d in 2024. Astronomers hope to use the huge observatory to study the ancient universe and look [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81911","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}