{"id":228307,"date":"2026-01-03T17:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/star-that-seemed-to-vanish-more-than-130-years-ago-is-found-again"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:10:44","slug":"star-that-seemed-to-vanish-more-than-130-years-ago-is-found-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/star-that-seemed-to-vanish-more-than-130-years-ago-is-found-again","title":{"rendered":"Star that seemed to vanish more than 130 years ago is found again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/star-that-seemed-to-vanish-more-than-130-years-ago-is-found-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1892, astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard thought he saw a bright star near Venus, but then it vanished. We may now know why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1892, astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard thought he saw a bright star near Venus, but then it vanished. We may now know why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228307","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}