{"id":1437,"date":"2011-09-10T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2011-11-20T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T20:05:21","slug":"special-edition-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/2011\/09\/special-edition-supernova\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Edition: SUPERNOVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey SpaceBloggers!<\/p>\n<p>We preempt this weeks blogpost of Space Game to bring you a fast breaking report of astronomical proportions. Are you ready? Here it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A star exploded in the Pinwheel galaxy 21 million years ago!!! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fast breaking? (you ask) That&#8217;s right! (I answer) Even thought the star exploded 21 million years ago, it did so in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinwheel_Galaxy\" target=\"_blank\">a galaxy so far, far away<\/a> that light from the explosion is just now reaching Earth. And it won&#8217;t be around for long.<\/p>\n<p>Light rays from the supernova first hit Earth a couple of weeks ago, Tuesday, August 24th. The explosion was noticed within hours by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.caltech.edu\/ptf\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">crack scientists<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.caltech.edu\/palomar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palomar Observatory<\/a>. It has been getting brighter each night and will reach its peak September 9 and 10, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey SpaceBloggers! We preempt this weeks blogpost of Space Game to bring you a fast breaking report of astronomical proportions. Are you ready? Here it is&#8230; A star exploded in the Pinwheel galaxy 21 million years ago!!! Fast breaking? (you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/2011\/09\/special-edition-supernova\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,5,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinwheel-galaxy","category-space","category-supernovae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}