{"id":5151,"date":"2012-07-29T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/hess-telescope\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T17:02:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T00:02:25","slug":"hess-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/hess-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"HESS Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hess.jpg' title='H.E.S.S.'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hess.jpg' alt='H.E.S.S.' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was tooling across the web on Friday at my usual web stops when I ran across this behemoth telescope on <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap120727.html\">APOD<\/a>. It&#8217;s the High Energy Stereo System (HESS) used not for looking into space, but to analyze the light emitted by cosmic rays striking the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>When I first saw the picture of this 32&#215;24 meter cherenkov telescope I immediately thought of the giant contraption in the film &#8220;Contact&#8221; where Jody Foster takes a trip to the Vega star system. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was tooling across the web on Friday at my usual web stops when I ran across this behemoth telescope on APOD. It&#8217;s the High Energy&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}