{"id":2914,"date":"2009-12-21T21:16:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/vista-starts-work\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:16:38","slug":"vista-starts-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/vista-starts-work.php","title":{"rendered":"VISTA Starts Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/eso122109A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/08b4d_eso122109blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>No it&rsquo;s not a computer program, no it&rsquo;s a new telescope has started work at the ESO&rsquo;s Paranal Observatory and this is one of the first releases.&nbsp; The telescope is the <strong>V<\/strong>isible and <strong>I<\/strong>nfrared <strong>S<\/strong>urvey <strong>T<\/strong>elescope for<strong> A<\/strong>stronomy, or VISTA for short.&nbsp; VISTA is surveying the sky at infrared wavelengths and is the largest telescope dedicated to survey work.<\/p><p>Indeed the telescope is working quite well if this image of the <a title=\"The Flame\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flame_Nebula\" target=\"_blank\">Flame Nebula<\/a> is any indication.&nbsp; The Flame is seen near the constellation of Orion. Actually the big bright star is Alnitak, the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion.<\/p><p>Visit the <a title=\"Visit the ESO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/news\/eso0949\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESO page<\/a> for more info and images from VISTA.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No it&rsquo;s not a computer program, no it&rsquo;s a new telescope has started work at the ESO&rsquo;s Paranal Observatory and this is one of the first releases.&nbsp; The telescope is the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, or VISTA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/vista-starts-work.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}