{"id":739744,"date":"2022-11-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=739744"},"modified":"2022-11-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:00:00","slug":"how-nasas-roman-telescope-will-scan-for-showstopping-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=739744","title":{"rendered":"How NASA\u2019s Roman Telescope Will Scan for Showstopping Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when the densest, most massive stars \u2013 that are also super small \u2013 collide? They send out brilliant explosions known as kilonovae. Scientists will soon have an additional observatory to help follow up on and even scout these remarkable events: NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch by May 2027.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/Goddard\/2022\/scanning-the-sky-for-showstopping-explosions-with-nasa-s-roman-space-telescope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How NASA\u2019s Roman Telescope Will Scan for Showstopping Explosions<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Goddard Center&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when the densest, most massive stars \u2013 that are also super small \u2013 collide? They send out brilliant explosions known as kilonovae. Scientists will soon have an additional&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goddard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739744","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=739744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739744\/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=739744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}