{"id":367,"date":"2011-10-01T14:04:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nekaal-observer.org\/?p=367"},"modified":"2011-10-01T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T19:04:37","slug":"dark-clues-to-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/2011\/10\/01\/dark-clues-to-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Clues to the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 200 billion stars in our own galaxy, you might expect the night sky to be lit up like daylight. If you live in a big city, it just might be\u2014but not because of starlight. But just why is it so dark at night? It took astronomers a very long time to figure it out.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyload\" title=\"Hubble image of Galaxy NGC 4414\" data-src=\"http:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/news-images\/ngc4414-hst.jpg\" alt=\"Hubble image of Galaxy NGC 4414\" width=\"299\" height=\"246\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 299px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 299\/246;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"    \" title=\"Hubble image of Galaxy NGC 4414\" src=\" http:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/news-images\/ngc4414-hst.jpg\" alt=\"Hubble image of Galaxy NGC 4414\" width=\"299\" height=\"246\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI\/AURA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/NASA-dark-sky.pdf\">Read all about it here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 200 billion stars in our own galaxy, you might expect the night sky to be lit up like daylight. If you live in a big city, it just might be\u2014but not because of starlight. But just why is it so dark at night? It took astronomers a very long time to figure it out. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/2011\/10\/01\/dark-clues-to-the-universe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dark Clues to the Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}