{"id":3921723,"date":"2025-09-04T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/no-radio-astronomy-needed-ring-laser-measures-earths-axis-wobble-with-unprecedented-precision\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:03:52","slug":"no-radio-astronomy-needed-ring-laser-measures-earths-axis-wobble-with-unprecedented-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/no-radio-astronomy-needed-ring-laser-measures-earths-axis-wobble-with-unprecedented-precision\/","title":{"rendered":"No radio astronomy needed: Ring laser measures Earth&#8217;s axis wobble with unprecedented precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations in Earth&#8217;s axis using a completely new method\u2014until now, possible only through complex radio astronomy. The team used the high-precision ring laser at TUM&#8217;s geodetic observatory in Wettzell, Bavaria.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-radio-astronomy-laser-earth-axis.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations in Earth&#8217;s axis using a completely new method\u2014until now, possible only through complex radio astronomy. The team used the high-precision ring laser at TUM&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/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-3921723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921723","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=3921723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}