{"id":472434,"date":"2018-05-08T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3fe16f2a3b28f5b6b8140a9916e26b2c"},"modified":"2018-05-08T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:40:36","slug":"breakthrough-listen-begins-survey-of-the-plane-of-the-milky-way-at-parkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=472434","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Listen begins survey of the plane of the Milky Way at Parkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthrough Listen \u2013 the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe \u2013 announced today that a survey of millions of stars located in the plane of our galaxy, using the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope (&#8220;Parkes&#8221;) in New South Wales, Australia, has commenced. Listen observations at Parkes began in November 2016, targeting a sample consisting mostly of stars within a few light years of Earth. Now, observations have expanded to cover a huge swath of the Milky Way visible from the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthrough Listen &ndash; the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe &ndash; announced today that a survey of millions of stars located in the plane of our galaxy, using the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope (&#8220;Parkes&#8221;) in New South Wales, Australia, has commenced. Listen observations at Parkes began in November 2016, targeting a sample consisting mostly of stars within a few light years of Earth. Now, observations have expanded to cover a huge swath of the Milky Way visible from the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472435,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472434\/revisions\/472435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}