{"id":84878,"date":"2018-11-18T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/minnesota-researcher-maintains-telescope-in-antarctica"},"modified":"2018-11-18T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T21:02:25","slug":"minnesota-researcher-maintains-telescope-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/minnesota-researcher-maintains-telescope-in-antarctica","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Researcher Maintains Telescope In Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/minnesota-researcher-maintains-telescope-in-antarctica.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014<\/strong> An astrophysicist from the University of Minnesota who has spent 14 winters in Antarctica tending to a telescope plans to step away from his research after the instrument is replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Public Radio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2018\/11\/12\/university-of-minnesota-astrophysicist-cares-for-telescope-antarctica\">reports<\/a> that the university will begin the replacing the telescope and mount at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station this month.<\/p>\n<p>University astrophysicist Robert Schwarz says he\u2019ll stay through the replacement process but doesn\u2019t plan to return. He\u2019s overseen the telescope maintenance, trekking out in temperatures as low as minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit to check on the instrument.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2018\/11\/18\/minnesota-researcher-telescope-antarctica\/\">https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2018\/11\/18\/minnesota-research...ntarctica\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 An astrophysicist from the University of Minnesota who has spent 14 winters in Antarctica tending to a telescope plans to step away from his research after the instrument is replaced. Minnesota Public Radio reports that the university will begin the replacing the telescope and mount at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station this [\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-84878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84878","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=84878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}