{"id":3926046,"date":"2026-05-20T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/after-10-years-of-upgrades-this-legendary-telescope-has-returned-to-chase-black-holes-asteroids-and-cosmic-chemistry\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:05:57","slug":"after-10-years-of-upgrades-this-legendary-telescope-has-returned-to-chase-black-holes-asteroids-and-cosmic-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/after-10-years-of-upgrades-this-legendary-telescope-has-returned-to-chase-black-holes-asteroids-and-cosmic-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"After 10 years of upgrades, this legendary telescope has returned to chase black holes, asteroids and cosmic chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964. Over the following four decades, it supported NASA&#8217;s Apollo landings on the moon, made planetary radar maps of the surface of Venus, contributed to experimental tests of Einstein&#8217;s general relativity, supported the development of VLBI, and conducted foundational studies of quasars and star-forming regions.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-years-legendary-telescope-black-holes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964. Over the following four decades, it supported NASA&#8217;s Apollo landings on the moon, made planetary radar maps of the surface of Venus, contributed to experimental tests of Einstein&#8217;s general relativity, supported [&#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-3926046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}