{"id":128392,"date":"2021-10-01T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/8-year-old-asteroid-hunter-from-brazil-is-officially-the-worlds-youngest-astronomer"},"modified":"2021-10-01T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:22:58","slug":"8-year-old-asteroid-hunter-from-brazil-is-officially-the-worlds-youngest-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/8-year-old-asteroid-hunter-from-brazil-is-officially-the-worlds-youngest-astronomer","title":{"rendered":"8-Year-Old Asteroid Hunter From Brazil Is Officially The World\u2019s Youngest Astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/8-year-old-asteroid-hunter-from-brazil-is-officially-the-worlds-youngest-astronomer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Nicole Oliveira was just learning to walk, she would throw up her arms to reach for the stars in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Today, at just eight years of age, the Brazilian girl is known as the world\u2019s youngest astronomer, looking for asteroids as part of a NASA-affiliated program, attending international seminars and meeting with her country\u2019s top space and science figures.<\/p>\n<p>In Oliveira\u2019s room, filled with posters of the Solar System, miniature rockets and Star Wars figures, Nicolinha, as she is affectionately known, works on her computer studying images of the sky on two large screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nicole Oliveira was just learning to walk, she would throw up her arms to reach for the stars in the sky. Today, at just eight years of age, the Brazilian girl is known as the world\u2019s youngest astronomer, looking for asteroids as part of a NASA-affiliated program, attending international seminars and meeting with her [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128392","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=128392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}