{"id":612136,"date":"2018-10-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3770ac474c1fe999348b5fd21441072d"},"modified":"2018-10-25T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T09:00:00","slug":"flyeye-the-bug-eyed-telescope-monitoring-our-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=612136","title":{"rendered":"Flyeye: the bug-eyed telescope monitoring our skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/flyeye_the_bug-eyed_telescope_monitoring_our_skies\/17593176-5-eng-GB\/Flyeye_the_bug-eyed_telescope_monitoring_our_skies_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs part of the global effort to hunt risky asteroids and comets, ESA is developing an automated telescope to conduct nightly sky surveys, known as a the \u2018Flyeye\u2019 telescope due to its multiple optics and extra-wide field of view. This telescope is the first in a future network that will completely scan the sky and automatically identify possible new near-Earth objects (NEOs) for follow up by human researchers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHaving the ability to predict if and when a dangerous object could strike Earth means measures can be put into place to minimise damage or, in future, to divert them before impact. The first Flyeye telescope will be installed in Italy beginning in 2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more about the exciting Flyeye telescope in the video, originally created as part of ESA\u2019s joint, live webcast with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/\" >ESO<\/a> for Asteroid Day 2018.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2018\/06\/Asteroid_Day_2018_live_from_ESA_ESO\">Watch the replay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the global effort to hunt risky asteroids and comets, ESA is developing an automated telescope to conduct nightly sky surveys, known as a the \u2018Flyeye\u2019 telescope due to its multiple optics and extra-wide field of view. This telesc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612136","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612137,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612136\/revisions\/612137"}],"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=612136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}