{"id":147830,"date":"2022-10-09T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/4-space-myths-you-should-never-believe"},"modified":"2022-10-09T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T16:22:31","slug":"4-space-myths-you-should-never-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/4-space-myths-you-should-never-believe","title":{"rendered":"4 Space Myths You Should Never Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/4-space-myths-you-should-never-believe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space is a mystery that astronomers are still actively working to solve. While spacecraft like the <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/science\/behold-james-webb-telescopes-largest-and-most-dazzling-image-yet\/\">James Webb<\/a> has given us a closer look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/science\/james-webbs-first-full-color-images-are-unlike-anything-weve-seen-before\/\">early universe<\/a>, there\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know about the world beyond our planet. Like anything mysterious, myths about space abound. But not everything you read or hear is true. Here are four space myths you should never believe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwinkle, twinkle, little star\u201d might be one of the most iconic nursery rhymes, but it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s true. Sure, stars do appear to twinkle in the night, but that isn\u2019t actually because they\u2019re flickering. This space myth couldn\u2019t be any more wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Stars, like our Sun, actually shine all of the time. However, as their light travels through space towards Earth, it passes through various gasses and debris. These obstacles cause the stars to appear as if they are twinkling. It makes for a good jingle, but it isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space is a mystery that astronomers are still actively working to solve. While spacecraft like the James Webb has given us a closer look at the early universe, there\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know about the world beyond our planet. Like anything mysterious, myths about space abound. But not everything you read or hear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147830","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}