{"id":38422,"date":"2011-08-21T15:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-beauty-of-space-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:45:01","slug":"the-beauty-of-space-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-beauty-of-space-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Space | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[UPDATE, 22:00 Mountain US Time, Aug 17: Well, that was easy! I just checked, and the book has blown through it's goal! BABloggees rock. Thanks! But this doesn't mean you still can't donate if you want to.]<\/em><\/p><p>I have a few picture books of astronomy on my shelf, and I always wonder how the publishers are able to print such magnificent quality books and make money. Some of the books are pretty pricey, as you might expect &mdash; a hundred pages of glossy full-color pictures ain&rsquo;t cheap! &mdash; so it seems like it would be hard to do this without a major publisher backing you.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1042560907\/publish-the-space-art-book-the-beauty-of-space\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/17841_beautyofspace_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36134\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Of course, that was before the intertubez. My friend, astronomer and artist Dan Durda, let me know about a gorgeous book called <em>The Beauty of Space<\/em>. He sent me some promo material, and it truly is a very cool book. It&rsquo;s about the history of space art, and includes astonishing and spectacular artwork from some of the best people making it (including Dan). <\/p><p>A book like this might be hard to publish on its own, so the editor, Jon Ramer, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1042560907\/publish-the-space-art-book-the-beauty-of-space\">has made it ...<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MjqZ-ivqigPjxHUT2J9-qlITbyg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/17841_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MjqZ-ivqigPjxHUT2J9-qlITbyg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/17841_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/17841_l094iiGOkjI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/17841_YAvt8GJve0g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UPDATE, 22:00 Mountain US Time, Aug 17: Well, that was easy! I just checked, and the book has blown through it's goal! BABloggees rock. Thanks! But this doesn't mean you still can't donate if you want to.]I have a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-beauty-of-space-bad-astronomy.php\">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":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}