{"id":719852,"date":"2022-03-21T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=719852"},"modified":"2022-03-21T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:01:55","slug":"astronomys-contribution-to-climate-change-rivals-the-emissions-from-some-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=719852","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy&#039;s contribution to climate change rivals the emissions from some countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/9401032_medium_wide-d50fe4c50883e50c0263fd2e2abc7080151f3a4f.jpg\" alt=\"Because space shuttle missions went up to repair and refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope, it has a relatively large carbon footprint compared to other telescopes.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Building and operating telescope can generate a lot of greenhouse gases. In fact, it&#8217;s as if each astronomer in the world was driving more than 100,000 miles per year, a new study finds. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/npr-rss-pixel-13.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/21\/1087203642\/astronomys-contribution-to-climate-change-rivals-the-emissions-from-some-countri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astronomy&#8217;s contribution to climate change rivals the emissions from some countries<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building and operating telescope can generate a lot of greenhouse gases. In fact, it&#8217;s as if each astronomer in the world was driving more than 100,000 miles per year, a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719852","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=719852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719852\/revisions"}],"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=719852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}