{"id":740480,"date":"2022-11-11T04:01:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=740480"},"modified":"2022-11-11T04:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:01:33","slug":"observatory-achieves-first-light-with-new-planet-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=740480","title":{"rendered":"Observatory achieves &#039;first light&#039; with new planet finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new planet-hunting instrument at W. M. Keck Observatory has achieved &#8220;first light,&#8221; capturing its first data from the sky and marking an exciting chapter in the search for Earth-sized planets around other stars, which are extraordinarily difficult to detect due to their small size. Operating on the Keck I Telescope on Hawai\u02bbi Island&#8217;s Maunakea, the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) is the world&#8217;s most advanced high-resolution spectrometer for visible wavelengths.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-observatory-planet-finder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Observatory achieves &#8216;first light&#8217; with new planet finder<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new planet-hunting instrument at W. M. Keck Observatory has achieved &#8220;first light,&#8221; capturing its first data from the sky and marking an exciting chapter in the search for Earth-sized&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740480","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=740480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740480\/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=740480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}