{"id":4474,"date":"2012-06-04T22:55:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T03:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2012-08-06T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T20:42:49","slug":"nasa-gets-two-military-spy-telescopes-for-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4474","title":{"rendered":"NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>They have 2.4-meter (7.9 feet) mirrors, just like the Hubble. They also have an additional feature that the civilian space telescopes lack: A maneuverable secondary mirror that makes it possible to obtain more focused images. These telescopes will have 100 times the field of view of the Hubble, according to David Spergel, a Princeton astrophysicist and co-chair of the National Academies advisory panel on astronomy and astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise announcement Monday is a reminder that NASA isn\u2019t the only space enterprise in the government \u2014 and isn\u2019t even the best funded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/nasa-gets-military-spy-telescopes-for-astronomy\/2012\/06\/04\/gJQAsT6UDV_story.html\">NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have 2.4-meter (7.9 feet) mirrors, just like the Hubble. They also have an additional feature that the civilian space telescopes lack: A maneuverable secondary mirror that makes it possible to obtain more focused images. These telescopes will have 100 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4474\">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":[513,512,658],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-nasa","tag-space","tag-telescope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","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=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}