{"id":230562,"date":"2026-02-05T05:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/x-rays-from-slacs-synchrotron-reveal-star-maps-in-a-centuries-old-manuscript"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:21:23","slug":"x-rays-from-slacs-synchrotron-reveal-star-maps-in-a-centuries-old-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/x-rays-from-slacs-synchrotron-reveal-star-maps-in-a-centuries-old-manuscript","title":{"rendered":"X-rays from SLAC\u2019s synchrotron reveal star maps in a centuries-old manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/x-rays-from-slacs-synchrotron-reveal-star-maps-in-a-centuries-old-manuscript.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pages from the Codex Climaci Rescriptus palimpsest from the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, were brought to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to recover erased astronomical text, especially fragments from Hipparchus\u2019 star catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages from the Codex Climaci Rescriptus palimpsest from the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, were brought to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to recover erased astronomical text, especially fragments from Hipparchus\u2019 star catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230562","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}