{"id":110895,"date":"2020-08-05T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/planetary-perfection-scientists-find-best-place-on-earth-to-see-stars"},"modified":"2020-08-05T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:22:52","slug":"planetary-perfection-scientists-find-best-place-on-earth-to-see-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/planetary-perfection-scientists-find-best-place-on-earth-to-see-stars","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Perfection: Scientists Find Best Place On Earth To See Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planetary-perfection-scientists-find-best-place-on-earth-to-see-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SYDNEY, Australia \u2014<\/strong> When you look up at the night sky, which constellations can you make out? Can you spot the Big Dipper? Do you see Orion\u2019s Belt? Counting stars is pretty difficult in areas with lots of light, like major cities. A study says even in the clearest skies, you\u2019re still seeing turbulence in the atmosphere that makes stars twinkle. Want a truly perfect view of outer space? An international research team has found the spot, but you\u2019ll need to bundle up. It\u2019s in Antarctica!<\/p>\n<p><b>Stars aren\u2019t supposed to twinkle?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to the University of New South Wales, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/turbulence-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turbulence<\/a> causes light coming from stars to bend as it reaches the Earth\u2019s surface. That instability in the air gives stars their trademark twinkling effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Australia \u2014 When you look up at the night sky, which constellations can you make out? Can you spot the Big Dipper? Do you see Orion\u2019s Belt? Counting stars is pretty difficult in areas with lots of light, like major cities. A study says even in the clearest skies, you\u2019re still seeing turbulence in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110895","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}