{"id":1120,"date":"2012-07-03T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2012-07-03T19:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T01:02:28","slug":"a-good-reason-to-wake-up-at-dawn-74-nasa-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn 7\/4 &#8211; NASA Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the link for more. <em style=\"color: red\"><sub>mjh<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2012\/03jul_wakeupatdawn\/\">A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn &#8211; NASA Science<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On the 4th of July, Venus will be passing dead-center through the Hyades cluster, a loose grouping of stars 153 light years from Earth.&nbsp;&nbsp; Using binoculars, scan around the bright planet; you&#8217;ll see dozens of stars scattered across the velvety-black sky. The temporary addition of Venus will make it seem that a supernova has gone off in the cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Three mornings later, on July 7th, Venus and Jupiter line up with Aldebaran, the bright red eye of Taurus the Bull.&nbsp; Aldebaran is a red giant star of first magnitude.&nbsp; Together with Venus and Jupiter, it forms an almost perfect vertical line in the brightening dawn sky. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2005\/04oct_leonardo\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wake Up (Earthshine, 200px)\" src=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/media\/medialibrary\/2012\/07\/03\/earthshine.jpg\/image_mini\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Earthshine is also known as &#8220;the Da Vinci Glow,&#8221; after Leonardo Da Vinci who first explained the phenomenon. <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2005\/04oct_leonardo\/\">more<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The best, however, is yet to come. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2012\/03jul_wakeupatdawn\/\">A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn &#8211; NASA Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the link for more. mjh A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn &#8211; NASA Science On the 4th of July, Venus will be passing dead-center through the Hyades cluster, a loose grouping of stars 153 light years from Earth.&nbsp;&nbsp; Using binoculars, scan around the bright planet; you&#8217;ll see dozens of stars scattered across &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn 7\/4 &#8211; NASA Science<\/span> <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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}