{"id":786,"date":"2014-10-21T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:53:36","slug":"apod-the-astronomy-picture-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"APOD, the Astronomy Picture of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again!\u00a0 I have been away for a while due to installing tile in our aviary. I sure wish that the process was as easy as it is in Minecraft!<\/p>\n<p>I want to get back to posting on a daily basis, but for a while these posts will have to be brief.<\/p>\n<p>Here is today&#8217;s brief post.<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of APOD? &#8230;the Astronomy Picture of the Day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=726\">A friend of mine named Denny<\/a> posted the APOD picture on a music forum I belonged to, and it is the main reason I became interested in astronomy! Denny has since passed away, but his tradition is carried on here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnfpoli.informe.com\/the-denny-ray-memorial-space-news-thread-dt1272-15.html\">http:\/\/cnfpoli.informe.com\/the-denny-ray-memorial-space-news-thread-dt1272-15.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about this &#8220;memorial thread&#8221; is that you can see the daily APODs one right after the other.<\/p>\n<p>Some information about the official APOD site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/b> (APOD) is originated, written, coordinated, and edited since 1995 by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. The <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/archivepix.html\">APOD archive<\/a> contains the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the internet&#8230;.In real life, Bob and Jerry are two professional astronomers who spend most of their time researching the universe. Bob is a professor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phy.mtu.edu\/\">Michigan Technological University<\/a> in Houghton, Michigan, USA, while Jerry is a scientist at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland USA&#8230;.<b>APOD<\/b> is proud to acknowledge that it received several accolades during its short existence, including a Scientific American 2001 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/explorations\/2001\/051401top50\/index.html\">Sci\/Tech Web<\/a> award.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take a brief fly-by on the Denny Memorial APOD thread, or <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/astropix.html\">visit the actual APOD site<\/a> where there is a paragraph of information with each photo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m74_hubble_960-APOD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m74_hubble_960-APOD.jpg\" alt=\"m74_hubble_960 APOD\" width=\"650\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m74_hubble_960-APOD.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m74_hubble_960-APOD-300x252.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/m74_hubble_960-APOD-500x421.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap130811.html\">http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap130811.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again!\u00a0 I have been away for a while due to installing tile in our aviary. I sure wish that the process was as easy as it is in Minecraft! I want to get back to posting on a daily &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=786\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}