{"id":554857,"date":"2018-12-10T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cf94e114b996c2a20a0302ec529327f1"},"modified":"2018-12-10T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:37:18","slug":"esrf-puts-its-shining-light-in-standby-mode-to-return-brighter-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=554857","title":{"rendered":"ESRF puts its shining light in standby mode, to return brighter in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No beam for a while. Restart in about 20 months.&#8221; Early this morning, operators of the ESRF Control room turned off the beam, ending 26 years of successful operation of the European Synchrotron, the world&#8217;s most powerful synchrotron light source. 2018 is a key year in the history of the ESRF. Thirty years after the signature of the ESRF Convention, the ESRF&#8217;s shining light has been put in standby mode. The ESRF now enters a 20-month shutdown and will dismantle its flagship storage ring to make way for a revolutionary X-ray source, an Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS), open for users in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No beam for a while. Restart in about 20 months.&#8221; Early this morning, operators of the ESRF Control room turned off the beam, ending 26 years of successful operation of the European Synchrotron, the world&#8217;s most powerful synchrotron light source. 2018&#8230;<\/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-554857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554857","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=554857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554858,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554857\/revisions\/554858"}],"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=554857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}