{"id":1622,"date":"2008-12-05T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T13:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:07","slug":"youre-a-star-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/youre-a-star-superstar\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re a star, superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1572 a new star blazed out in the sky, so bright it could be seen during the day. The astronomer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tycho_brahe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tycho Brahe<\/a>\u00a0described it in his book\u00a0De Stella Nova, giving us a word we use even today to describe a crappy little Vauxhall. Apparently he caused ripples by proving it lay quite a way beyond the orbit of the moon, which wasn&#8217;t officially possible &#8211; though even he might have been surprised to know quite how far away it was.<\/p>\n<p>Now,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7762939.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the BBC tells us<\/a>, astronomers around the world are seeing it\u00a0again, because light that shot off in the opposite direction is reflecting off clouds of interstellar dust particles and coming back at us.<\/p>\n<p>Is this not utterly astonishing and utterly cool? What an amazing universe we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1572 a new star blazed out in the sky, so bright it could be seen during the day. The astronomer\u00a0Tycho Brahe\u00a0described it in his book\u00a0De Stella Nova, giving us a word we use even today to describe a crappy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/youre-a-star-superstar\/\">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":[1,225],"tags":[342,404],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}