{"id":100267,"date":"2019-12-29T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/giant-red-star-may-be-about-to-explode"},"modified":"2019-12-29T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:43:16","slug":"giant-red-star-may-be-about-to-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/giant-red-star-may-be-about-to-explode","title":{"rendered":"Giant red star may be about to explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-red-star-may-be-about-to-explode2.wav\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(CNN) \u2014 Scientists are puzzled by the behavior of what used to be one of the brightest stars in the skies.<\/p>\n<p>The red giant star \u2013 called Betelgeuse (bey-tel-juice) \u2013 has been rapidly dimming since October.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be the ninth-brightest object you can see from Earth, but it\u2019s now more than two times fainter than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) \u2014 Scientists are puzzled by the behavior of what used to be one of the brightest stars in the skies. The red giant star \u2013 called Betelgeuse (bey-tel-juice) \u2013 has been rapidly dimming since October. It used to be the ninth-brightest object you can see from Earth, but it\u2019s now more than two times [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}