{"id":655,"date":"2009-11-08T05:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:26:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:26:52","slug":"happy-halloween-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/happy-halloween-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/apod103109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/797d5_apod103109blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"323\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>The Witch Head Nebula.  Click for larger.  Image Credit and copyright: APOD and Star Shadows Remote Observatory (Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Rick Gilbert, Teri Smoot, Daniel Verschatse).<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>This is an Astronomy Picture of the Day selection from last year featuring the Witch Head Nebula.<\/p><p>The Witch Head Nebula is about 1,000 light-years away in the constellation of Orion.&nbsp; The nebula is known as a reflection nebula because it is illuminated by a nearby star or group of stars, in this case the star is the blue supergiant Rigel.<\/p><p>I was going to use a different version of this nebula for today, but this one is just too good not to use, the bright star Rigel just makes the image all the better.<\/p><p>You can see this image in it&rsquo;s original context AND links to other scary sights (be very sure to look at the link for the veiled spectre) at<a title=\"See this post at APOD\" href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap081031.html\" target=\"_blank\"> APOD<\/a>.<\/p><p>The original image: A &ldquo;Witch by Starlight&rdquo;&nbsp; Credit &amp; Copyright: Star Shadows Remote Observatory (Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Rick Gilbert, Teri Smoot, Daniel Verschatse).&nbsp; I tried to image the Witch Head a couple years ago and had very little success so in my book this image isn&rsquo;t just good, it&rsquo;s extraordinary.<\/p><p>If you are out and about tonight HAVE FUN AND BE SAFE!<\/p><p>Oh and when you go to the APOD site you can get a larger version so you can put it on your desktop.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witch Head Nebula. Click for larger. Image Credit and copyright: APOD and Star Shadows Remote Observatory (Steve Mazlin, Jack Harvey, Rick Gilbert, Teri Smoot, Daniel Verschatse).This is an Astronomy Picture of the Day selection from last year featuring the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/happy-halloween-2.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-655","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\/655"}],"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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}