{"id":865,"date":"2009-08-28T21:15:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=865"},"modified":"2009-08-28T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:16:00","slug":"understanding-astronomical-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/understanding-astronomical-distances\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Astronomical Distances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult for the human brain to comprehend the extreme distances in astronomy.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you really envision a light year?\u00c2\u00a0 How about the difference between a hundred light years and fifty parsecs?<\/p>\n<p>This video, by George Hrab, should help clarify things, and make it easier for you to understand astronomical distances.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dF2HG1PVZok&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dF2HG1PVZok&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult for the human brain to comprehend the extreme distances in astronomy.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you really envision a light year?\u00c2\u00a0 How about the difference between a hundred light years and fifty parsecs? This video, by George Hrab, should help clarify things, and make it easier for you to understand astronomical distances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}