{"id":2760,"date":"2012-02-05T00:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2012-10-14T23:46:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T04:46:53","slug":"four-telescope-link-up-creates-worlds-largest-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"Four telescope link-up creates world&#8217;s largest mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The process that links separate telescopes together is known as interferometry.<\/p>\n<p>In this mode, the VLT becomes the biggest ground-based optical telescope on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Besides creating a gigantic virtual mirror, interferometry also greatly improves the telescope&#8217;s spatial resolution and zooming capabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-16869022\">BBC News &#8211; Four telescope link-up creates world&#8217;s largest mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process that links separate telescopes together is known as interferometry. In this mode, the VLT becomes the biggest ground-based optical telescope on earth. Besides creating a gigantic virtual mirror, interferometry also greatly improves the telescope&#8217;s spatial resolution and zooming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2760\">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":[466,658],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-optics","tag-telescope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7376,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/7376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}