{"id":96669,"date":"2019-09-25T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/china-opens-up-ginormous-alien-hunting-telescope"},"modified":"2019-09-25T21:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T04:02:24","slug":"china-opens-up-ginormous-alien-hunting-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/china-opens-up-ginormous-alien-hunting-telescope","title":{"rendered":"China Opens Up Ginormous Alien-Hunting Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-opens-up-ginormous-alien-hunting-telescope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the biggest single-dish radio telescope in the world, spanning the length of 30 soccer fields.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Super Sensitive<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The telescope has also detected hundreds of fast radio bursts from a single known source, many of which were too faint to pick up by other telescopes, according to <em>Nature<\/em>. It could even spot distant exoplanets by their radio emissions alone \u2014 something that has yet to be successfully done.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining big challenge will be to store the incredibly vast amounts of data the telescope will be collecting over the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the biggest single-dish radio telescope in the world, spanning the length of 30 soccer fields. Super Sensitive The telescope has also detected hundreds of fast radio bursts from a single known source, many of which were too faint to pick up by other telescopes, according to Nature. It could even spot distant exoplanets by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96669","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}