{"id":1308,"date":"2012-11-27T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T00:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2012-11-27T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T00:21:10","slug":"orion-treads-the-night-sky-all-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Orion treads the night sky all winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the link to read about Betelgeuse, the red giant in Orion. peace, <em>mjh<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2012-november-27-december-4\">The Sky This Week, 2012 November 27 &#8211; December 4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Greek mythology Orion is connected to another constellation with a distinctive reddish star. According to legend the Hunter, who was a mere mortal (albeit a very big and strong one) boasted that he held dominion over all the creatures on the Earth, a claim which upset Diana, goddess of the hunt. To put Orion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ego in its proper place Diana sent a scorpion to challenge the boastful giant; the scorpion stung Orion in the heel as he tried to squash it with his foot. To her dismay Diana realized that she had a &#8220;crush&#8221; on the now-defunct Hunter, so she placed both victims in the sky in such a way that they would never be seen at the same time. The scorpion is, of course, the constellation Scorpius, and its brightest star is the red supergiant star Antares.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usno.navy.mil\/USNO\/tours-events\/sky-this-week\/the-sky-this-week-2012-november-27-december-4\">The Sky This Week, 2012 November 27 &#8211; December 4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the link to read about Betelgeuse, the red giant in Orion. peace, mjh&nbsp; The Sky This Week, 2012 November 27 &#8211; December 4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Naval Oceanography Portal In Greek mythology Orion is connected to another constellation with a distinctive reddish star. According to legend the Hunter, who was a mere mortal (albeit a very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orion treads the night sky all winter<\/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-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","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=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}