{"id":219932,"date":"2025-08-12T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/move-over-mercury-chiron-is-in-retrograde-what-even-is-chiron"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:14:43","slug":"move-over-mercury-chiron-is-in-retrograde-what-even-is-chiron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/move-over-mercury-chiron-is-in-retrograde-what-even-is-chiron","title":{"rendered":"Move over Mercury\u2014Chiron is in retrograde: What even is Chiron?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/move-over-mercury-chiron-is-in-retrograde-what-even-is-chiron.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: \u201cChiron is in retrograde.\u201d If you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019ve never heard of Chiron before\u2014and I\u2019m a professional astronomer.<\/p>\n<p>So what is Chiron, and what does it mean to be in retrograde? The short answer is that Chiron is an asteroid-slash-comet orbiting somewhere past Jupiter and Saturn. And until January 2026, it\u2019s going to look like it\u2019s going backwards in the sky. If you can spot it.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a bit more to the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: \u201cChiron is in retrograde.\u201d If you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019ve never heard of Chiron before\u2014and I\u2019m a professional astronomer. So what is Chiron, and what does it mean to be in retrograde? The short answer is that Chiron is an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219932","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}