{"id":194518,"date":"2024-08-13T23:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/astronomers-have-found-leftover-zombie-star-from-supernova-shone-in-the-night-sky-1000-years-ago"},"modified":"2024-08-13T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:24:32","slug":"astronomers-have-found-leftover-zombie-star-from-supernova-shone-in-the-night-sky-1000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/astronomers-have-found-leftover-zombie-star-from-supernova-shone-in-the-night-sky-1000-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers have found leftover \u2018zombie star\u2019 from supernova shone in the night sky 1,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-found-leftover-zombie-star-from-supernova-shone-in-the-night-sky-1000-years-ago2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The striking object appeared as bright as Saturn in the vicinity of the constellation Cassiopeia, and historical chronicles from China and Japan recorded it as a \u201cguest star.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese astronomers used this term to signify a temporary object in the sky, often a comet or, as in this case, a supernova \u2014 a cataclysmic explosion of a star at the end of its life.<\/p>\n<p>The object, now known as SN 1,181, is one of a handful of supernovas documented before the invention of telescopes, and it has puzzled astronomers for centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The striking object appeared as bright as Saturn in the vicinity of the constellation Cassiopeia, and historical chronicles from China and Japan recorded it as a \u201cguest star.\u201d Chinese astronomers used this term to signify a temporary object in the sky, often a comet or, as in this case, a supernova \u2014 a cataclysmic explosion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194518","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=194518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}