{"id":1412,"date":"2010-05-16T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T08:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2012-06-08T07:40:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T06:40:11","slug":"a-rare-meeting-of-planets-and-spaceships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Meeting of Planets and Spaceships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2010\/13may_planetsandspaceships\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1413\" title=\"Moon-Venus-20100516\" src=\"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Moon-Venus-20100516-440x377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Moon-Venus-20100516-440x377.jpg 440w, https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Moon-Venus-20100516-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Moon-Venus-20100516.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><br \/>\nWestern view of the horizon after sunset on May 16th, 2010. Created with Stellarium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This weekend, Venus and the crescent Moon are gathering in the western  sky for a spectacular conjunction, and they're not alone. The  International Space Station and, very likely, space shuttle Atlantis  will join them for a rare four-way meeting of spaceships and planets  over many locations. 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Created with Stellarium. This weekend, Venus and the crescent Moon are gathering in the western sky for a spectacular conjunction, and they&#8217;re not alone. The International Space Station and, very likely, space shuttle Atlantis will join them for a rare four-way meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observational-highlights-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6274,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/6274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}