{"id":795865,"date":"2025-05-02T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795865"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:39:04","slug":"in-praise-of-space-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=795865","title":{"rendered":"In praise of space telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Voyager Golden Records carry human emotions into the Cosmos.<\/strong> The sounds and images encoded into the phonograph records (pictured) aboard NASA\u2019s twin Voyager spacecraft are designed to depict Earth, life, and humanity. Read our latest article about how the Voyagers also carry human emotion, especially love, out into the great beyond. <i>Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media can be a powerful tool for sharing space with the world.<\/strong> This week on Planetary Radio, Sarah Al-Ahmed chats with the YouTuber Astrokobi about how he went from stargazing in a rural Australian backyard to inspiring millions of people around the world to love space science.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re invited to the Humans to the Moon and Mars Summit.<\/strong> Taking place May 28\u201329, 2025, in Washington, D.C., the Summit will bring together astronauts, scientists, innovators, policymakers, and explorers to chart the next giant leaps toward the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Planetary Society members can use the promo code <strong>PlanetarySocietyMARS2025<\/strong> for a 10% discount on registration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/email\/newsletter\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can defend space science today!<\/strong> Together, we can defend the future of space science and exploration. Through the support of people like you, we will continue our tireless work protecting and promoting space science and exploration, and ensuring that scientific advancements continue uninterrupted today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. And right now, every dollar you donate will have TWICE the impact for our advocacy efforts \u2014 thanks to a generous $75,000 matching gift challenge from a Planetary Society member! Will you do your part to keep science moving forward? Remember, when you give today, your donation will go TWICE as far!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/the-downlink\/in-praise-of-space-telescopes?rand=772267\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voyager Golden Records carry human emotions into the Cosmos. The sounds and images encoded into the phonograph records (pictured) aboard NASA\u2019s twin Voyager spacecraft are designed to depict Earth,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-planetary-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795865","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=795865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/795866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}