{"id":1241,"date":"2009-08-14T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:25:01","slug":"mammoth-telescope-to-be-built-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2009\/08\/14\/mammoth-telescope-to-be-built-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth Telescope to Be Built in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/07\/thirtymetertelescope\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"219\" data-attachment-id=\"1243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2009\/08\/14\/mammoth-telescope-to-be-built-in-hawaii\/30meter-tele-small\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2009\/08\/30meter-tele-small.jpg?fit=314%2C219&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"314,219\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"30-meter telescope\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;A new 30-meter telescope will be constructed atop Mauna Kea by 2018.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;30-meter telescope&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2009\/08\/30meter-tele-small.jpg?fit=314%2C219&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/staging\/files\/2009\/08\/30meter-tele-small.jpg?resize=314%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"30-meter telescope\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2009\/08\/30meter-tele-small.jpg?w=314&amp;ssl=1 314w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2009\/08\/30meter-tele-small.jpg?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFrom listener Brian.<\/p>\n<p>When this telescope is complete, it&#8217;ll have nine times the light collecting surface than the largest telescope on present day Earth and will surpass the Hubble telescope in some ways.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds a bit like the LHC of telescopes.  Oughta be a bit interesting to see the pictures it takes in a decade or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From listener Brian. When this telescope is complete, it&#8217;ll have nine times the light collecting surface than the largest telescope on present day Earth and will surpass the Hubble telescope in some ways. Sounds a bit like the LHC of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2009\/08\/14\/mammoth-telescope-to-be-built-in-hawaii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[231,323,524],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hawaii","tag-mauna-kea","tag-telescope"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-k1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}