{"id":1382,"date":"2008-04-24T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2008-04-24T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T14:48:37","slug":"happy_birthday_hubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/24\/happy_birthday_hubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Hubble!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/hubble_galaxies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hubble_galaxies.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/hubble_galaxies-thumb.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bad Astronomer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2008\/04\/24\/when-galaxies-collide\/\">reminds us<\/a> that today is the 18th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. It&#8217;s hard to believe that Hubble has been sending back <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/gallery\/album\/\">incredible photos<\/a> of the universe around us for nearly <i>two decades<\/i>. Time flies.<br \/>\nTo celebrate the anniversary, NASA has released 59 images of galaxies colliding with other galaxies, the largest collection of Hubble images ever released to the public in a single package. The image above contains some highlights. Click on it to see &#8217;em large, or go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/goodies\/mergingGalaxiesSite\/mergingGalaxies.html\">here<\/a> for the complete gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Good stuff, Maynard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bad Astronomer reminds us that today is the 18th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. It&#8217;s hard to believe that Hubble has been sending back incredible photos of the universe around us for nearly two decades. Time flies. To celebrate the anniversary, NASA has released 59 images of galaxies colliding with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}