{"id":8096,"date":"2017-01-10T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2017-01-16T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:18:22","slug":"chile-seeking-alpha-centauri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/10\/chile-seeking-alpha-centauri\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile Seeking Alpha Centauri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/giant-telescope-chile-seek-habitable-planets-alpha-centauri-191555343.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Reuters via Yahoo! News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Giant telescope in Chile to seek habitable planets in Alpha Centauri<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/sy\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/7HRwR_GeOSwoTVFBat6oCg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NDUwO2g9MjgxO2lsPXBsYW5l\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/Reuters\/2017-01-10T191555Z_1_LYNXMPED091B3_RTROPTP_2_SPACE-PLANET.JPG.cf.jpg\" alt=\"An artist\u2019s impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth\" width=\"480\" \/><em>This artist&#8217;s impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth in this image released on October 17, 2012. REUTERS\/ESO\/L. Calcada\/N. Risinger<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SANTIAGO (Reuters) &#8211; The European Southern Observatory&#8217;s Very Large Telescope in Chile will be modified in order to allow it to search more effectively for potentially habitable planets in Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The ESO said it has signed a deal with Breakthrough Starshot, a venture that aims to deploy thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to the system and send back pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Starshot, which is backed by internet billionaire Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking, will provide funding to allow equipment on the Very Large Telescope that studies in the mid-infrared to be adapted to better detect faint planets, the ESO said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The adaption will have the effect of reducing bright stellar light that drowns out relatively dim planets, improving the chances of finding them, it said.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/giant-telescope-chile-seek-habitable-planets-alpha-centauri-191555343.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Yahoo! News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Reuters via Yahoo! News Giant telescope in Chile to seek habitable planets in Alpha Centauri This artist&#8217;s impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth in this image released on October 17, 2012. REUTERS\/ESO\/L. Calcada\/N. Risinger SANTIAGO (Reuters) &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}