{"id":688388,"date":"2021-04-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688388"},"modified":"2021-04-27T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:00:00","slug":"new-esa-telescope-in-south-america-to-search-for-dangerous-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688388","title":{"rendered":"New ESA telescope in South America to search for dangerous asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ESA_s_Test-Bed_Telescope_2_at_ESO_s_La_Silla_Observatory_at_sunset_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"ESA's Test-Bed Telescope 2 at sunset at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ESA\u2019s second Test-Bed Telescope has seen \u2018first light\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>It will help spot asteroids in space that could pose a risk to Earth.<\/li>\n<li>This telescope is the latest step towards ESA\u2019s planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Flyeye_ESA_s_bug-eyed_asteroid_hunter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Flyeye<\/a> telescope network.<\/li>\n<li>It is hosted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">European Southern Observatory<\/a>\u2019s La Silla Observatory in Chile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Planetary_Defence\/New_ESA_telescope_in_South_America_to_search_for_dangerous_asteroids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">New ESA telescope in South America to search for dangerous asteroids<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s second Test-Bed Telescope has seen \u2018first light\u2019. It will help spot asteroids in space that could pose a risk to Earth. This telescope is the latest step towards ESA\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688389,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688388","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/688389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}