{"id":234672,"date":"2026-04-06T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/nasa-telescope-uncovers-new-mystery-in-supernova-first-spotted-by-chinese-astronomers-2000-years-ago-space-photo-of-the-week"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:12:57","slug":"nasa-telescope-uncovers-new-mystery-in-supernova-first-spotted-by-chinese-astronomers-2000-years-ago-space-photo-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/nasa-telescope-uncovers-new-mystery-in-supernova-first-spotted-by-chinese-astronomers-2000-years-ago-space-photo-of-the-week","title":{"rendered":"NASA telescope uncovers new mystery in supernova first spotted by Chinese astronomers 2,000 years ago \u2014\u202c Space photo of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-telescope-uncovers-new-mystery-in-supernova-first-spotted-by-chinese-astronomers-2000-years-ago-space-photo-of-the-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer reveals the expansion and shock patterns within RCW 86, a supernova observed by early astronomers in A.D. 185.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer reveals the expansion and shock patterns within RCW 86, a supernova observed by early astronomers in A.D. 185.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234672","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=234672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}