{"id":7074,"date":"2011-07-29T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2011-07-28T22:47:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T10:47:44","slug":"astronomy-picture-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/astronomy-picture-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy Picture of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between working on my own books, and keeping up with the reading on other peoples&#8217; books, especially those on various SFF award lists around the globe, I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time for astronomy fun lately. So today I thought I&#8217;d just briefly mention one of my favourite sites, NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/astropix.html\"><strong>Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each day this wonderful site features an image of a space related theme, with an explanation by a professional astronomer. So if, like me, every now and then you like to look up and see the stars and imagine the sheer amazingness of the cosmos &#8220;out there&#8221;, then this could be a site that you will enjoy as well.<\/p>\n<p>Just to give you a taste of the astronomical goodness to be experienced, here is July 15th&#8217;s picture of the day, which shows two overlapping galaxies. To see the image in full and read the professional explanation of all this wonder, click <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110715.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7078\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7078\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/astronomy-picture-of-the-day\/ngc3314-galaxies\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7078\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7078 \" title=\"NGC3314 Galaxies\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NGC3314-Galaxies-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NGC3314-Galaxies-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NGC3314-Galaxies-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NGC3314-Galaxies-1024x921.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NGC3314-Galaxies.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NGC3314, Overlapping Galaxies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between working on my own books, and keeping up with the reading on other peoples&#8217; books, especially those on various SFF award lists around the globe, I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time for astronomy fun lately. So today I thought I&#8217;d just briefly mention one of my favourite sites, NASA&#8217;s Astronomy Picture of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-space-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7084,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}