{"id":3921547,"date":"2025-08-20T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-most-powerful-tool-in-an-astronomers-arsenal-is-a-lens-but-not-the-kind-you-might-think\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:03:14","slug":"the-most-powerful-tool-in-an-astronomers-arsenal-is-a-lens-but-not-the-kind-you-might-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-most-powerful-tool-in-an-astronomers-arsenal-is-a-lens-but-not-the-kind-you-might-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The most powerful tool in an astronomer&#8217;s arsenal is a lens\u2014but not the kind you might think"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in comparison to the power of nature&#8217;s own &#8220;cosmic magnifying glasses&#8221;\u2014strong gravitational lenses.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-powerful-tool-astronomer-arsenal-lens.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in comparison to the power of nature&#8217;s own &#8220;cosmic magnifying glasses&#8221;\u2014strong gravitational lenses. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}