{"id":3927286,"date":"2026-07-31T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/elts-spectrograph-could-sniff-out-biosignatures-on-other-worlds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:03:13","slug":"elts-spectrograph-could-sniff-out-biosignatures-on-other-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/elts-spectrograph-could-sniff-out-biosignatures-on-other-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"ELT&#8217;s spectrograph could &#8216;sniff out&#8217; biosignatures on other worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We&#8217;re starting to see some come through for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which hopefully will get a more imaginative name when the 39 m (128-foot) behemoth is officially commissioned in Chile in the 2030s.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-elt-spectrograph-biosignatures-worlds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We&#8217;re starting to see some come through for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which hopefully will get a more imaginative name when the 39 m (128-foot) behemoth is officially commissioned in Chile in the 2030s. [&#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-3927286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927286","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=3927286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}