{"id":40894,"date":"2015-05-07T00:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=40894"},"modified":"2015-05-07T02:39:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T09:39:10","slug":"how-telescope-time-is-assigned-to-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/how-telescope-time-is-assigned-to-astronomers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Telescope Time is Assigned to Astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><div class=\"highlighter\">In this video, produced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradyharan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">very talented Brady Haran<\/a> over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A\" target=\"_blank\">Numberphile, which you can subscribe to here<\/a>, Dr. Mike Merrifield discusses how it is decided who to give telescope time to given the limited time available in the world&#8217;s major observatories. If you like this video, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TodayIFoundOut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">join us<\/a> in supporting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/numberphile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Numberphile on Patreon here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7c0CoXFApnM?rel=0\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you liked this video, you might also enjoy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/how-the-speed-of-light-was-first-measured\/\">How the Speed of Light was First Measured<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/hubble-telescope-named\/\">Why Hubble Has a Telescope Named After Him<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/amazing-eratosthenes\/\">The Man Who Accurately Estimated the Circumference of the Earth Over 2,000 Years Ago<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/day-history-october-31st\/\">Galileo and Why He was Convicted of Heresy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, produced by the very talented Brady Haran over at Numberphile, which you can subscribe to here, Dr. Mike Merrifield discusses how it is decided who to give telescope time to given the limited time available in the world&#8217;s major observatories. If you like this video, please join us in supporting Numberphile on Patreon here. If you liked [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational_videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40895,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions\/40895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}