{"id":8234,"date":"2010-04-26T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T22:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2010-04-26T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T22:03:20","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-worlds-biggest-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s biggest telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8645511.stm\" target=\"_blank\">being built<\/a> in Chile.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/47722000\/jpg\/_47722547_eso1018a.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"233\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it is finished, Bishop Michael Bird plans to rent it for the weekend, to scour the universe for a same-sex couple to marry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The observatory will be constructed on Cerro Armazones, a 3,000m-high mountain in Chile&#8217;s Atacama Desert.<\/p>\n<p>The E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) will have a primary mirror 42m in diameter &#8211; about five times the width of today&#8217;s best telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers say the next-generation observatory will be so powerful it will be able to image directly rocky planets beyond our Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>It should also be able to provide major insights into the nature of black holes, galaxy formation, the mysterious &#8220;dark matter&#8221; that pervades the Universe, and the even more mysterious &#8220;dark energy&#8221; which appears to be pushing the cosmos apart at an accelerating rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is being built in Chile. When it is finished, Bishop Michael Bird plans to rent it for the weekend, to scour the universe for a same-sex couple to marry. The observatory will be constructed on Cerro Armazones, a 3,000m-high mountain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-worlds-biggest-telescope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,284],"tags":[2245],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","category-science","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}