{"id":88125,"date":"2019-02-23T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/meet-wfirst-the-space-telescope-with-the-power-of-100-hubbles"},"modified":"2019-02-23T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:22:17","slug":"meet-wfirst-the-space-telescope-with-the-power-of-100-hubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/meet-wfirst-the-space-telescope-with-the-power-of-100-hubbles","title":{"rendered":"Meet WFIRST, The Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles"},"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\/LP3wGAwt1kM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WFIRST ain\u2019t your grandma\u2019s space telescope. Despite having the same size mirror as the surprisingly reliable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/140401\/yes-hubble-is-back-in-operation\/\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, clocking in at 2.4 meters across, this puppy will pack a punch with a gigantic 300 megapixel camera, enabling it to snap a single image with an area a hundred times greater than the Hubble.<\/p>\n<p>With that fantastic camera and the addition of one of the most sensitive coronagraphs ever made \u2013 letting it block out distant starlight on a star-by-star basis \u2013 this next-generation telescope will uncover some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and also find about a million exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/141528\/meeet-wfirst-the-space-telescope-with-the-power-of-100-hubbles\/\">https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/141528\/meeet-wfirst-the-space-...0-hubbles\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WFIRST ain\u2019t your grandma\u2019s space telescope. Despite having the same size mirror as the surprisingly reliable Hubble Space Telescope, clocking in at 2.4 meters across, this puppy will pack a punch with a gigantic 300 megapixel camera, enabling it to snap a single image with an area a hundred times greater than the Hubble. With [\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-88125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88125","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=88125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}