{"id":17034,"date":"2026-02-16T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17034"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:26:08","slug":"south-pole-telescope-saw-first-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17034","title":{"rendered":"South Pole Telescope Saw First Light in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Pole Telescope saw first light in 2007<\/strong>. Scientists using the ten-foot diameter radio telescope are seeking data regarding the history of the universe, dark energy, and galaxy clusters. The radio telescope is located on a South Pole plateau two miles above sea level. The air there is so dry that the area is desert-like. Older children can learn more at an <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>excellent site<\/strong><\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/livingsouthpole\/sciencegoals.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Pole Telescope<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Pole Telescope saw first light in 2007. Scientists using the ten-foot diameter radio telescope are seeking data regarding the history of the universe, dark energy, and galaxy clusters. The radio telescope is located on a South Pole plateau two miles above sea level. The air there is so dry that the area is desert-like. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=17034' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5313,6440,5311,3642,3641],"class_list":["post-17034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5313","tag-celebrate-and-learn","tag-february-16","tag-south-pole","tag-south-pole-telescope","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17034"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26923,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034\/revisions\/26923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}