{"id":14838,"date":"2015-01-28T18:11:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T00:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14838"},"modified":"2015-01-28T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T00:11:54","slug":"lensless-space-telescope-could-be-1000-times-stronger-than-hubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14838","title":{"rendered":"Lensless space telescope could be 1,000 times stronger than Hubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Aragoscope is named after French scientist Francois Arago who first noticed how a disk diffracted light waves. The principle is based on using a large disk as a diffraction lens, which bends light from distant objects around the edge of the disk and focuses it like a conventional refraction lens. The phenomenon isn&#8217;t very pronounced on the small scale, but if the telescope is extremely large, it not only becomes practical, but also extremely powerful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/aragoscope-lensless-telescope\/35761\/\">Lensless space telescope could be 1,000 times stronger than Hubble<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aragoscope is named after French scientist Francois Arago who first noticed how a disk diffracted light waves. The principle is based on using a large disk as a diffraction lens, which bends light from distant objects around the edge &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[855,1361,658],"class_list":["post-14838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-astronomy","tag-hubble","tag-telescope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14839,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions\/14839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}