{"id":126660,"date":"2021-08-23T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/new-vistas-in-astronomy-the-great-dimming-of-betelgeuse"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T18:23:48","slug":"new-vistas-in-astronomy-the-great-dimming-of-betelgeuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/new-vistas-in-astronomy-the-great-dimming-of-betelgeuse","title":{"rendered":"New Vistas in Astronomy: The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-vistas-in-astronomy-the-great-dimming-of-betelgeuse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvard &amp; Smithsonian, where she directs the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division. She is a past President of the American Astronomical Society and holds degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard University. Her interest in the star Betelgeuse began in the mid-80\u2019s with measurements from satellites that documented the 420-day pulsation period of Betelgeuse. She also led the extraordinary team that captured the first image of a star other than the Sun \u2013 an image of Betelgeuse taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in ultraviolet light \u2013 revealing its brightly varying surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard &amp; Smithsonian, where she directs the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division. She is a past President of the American Astronomical Society and holds degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard University. Her interest in the star Betelgeuse began in the mid-80\u2019s with measurements from satellites that documented the 420-day pulsation period of Betelgeuse. She [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126660","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}