{"id":86415,"date":"2019-01-06T06:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/wash-u-scientist-helps-launch-telescope-from-antarctica-to-see-bright-objects-in-space"},"modified":"2019-01-06T06:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T14:23:42","slug":"wash-u-scientist-helps-launch-telescope-from-antarctica-to-see-bright-objects-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/wash-u-scientist-helps-launch-telescope-from-antarctica-to-see-bright-objects-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Wash U scientist helps launch telescope from Antarctica to see bright objects in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wash-u-scientist-helps-launch-telescope-from-antarctica-to-see-bright-objects-in-space.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just before the new year, a Washington University professor was among a group of scientists who launched a telescope from Antarctica that could observe bright, massive objects in space, like black holes.<\/p>\n<p>The international team of researchers, which included Wash U physics professor Henric Krawczynski, wanted to collect data on black holes and neutron stars, a very dense collapsed core of a giant star.<\/p>\n<p>Studying such celestial phenomena helps astrophysicists test the fundamental laws of physics, Krawczynski said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.stlpublicradio.org\/post\/wash-u-scientist-helps-launch-telescope-antarctica-see-bright-objects-space#stream\/0\">http:\/\/news.stlpublicradio.org\/post\/wash-u-scientist-helps-l...e#stream\/0<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the new year, a Washington University professor was among a group of scientists who launched a telescope from Antarctica that could observe bright, massive objects in space, like black holes. The international team of researchers, which included Wash U physics professor Henric Krawczynski, wanted to collect data on black holes and neutron stars, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86415","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=86415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}