{"id":26413,"date":"2016-06-02T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T01:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/what-is-this-weird-glowing-spot-hovering-over-pluto"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:54:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:54:52","slug":"what-is-this-weird-glowing-spot-hovering-over-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/what-is-this-weird-glowing-spot-hovering-over-pluto","title":{"rendered":"What Is This Weird Glowing Spot Hovering Over Pluto?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-this-weird-glowing-spot-hovering-over-pluto.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it aliens? Sure sounds like aliens\u2014but these strange, glowing patches over Pluto are actually something else (almost) as mysterious.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s New Horizons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/thumbnails\/image\/darksideimage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snapped this photo of sunlight streaming through Pluto\u2019s haze<\/a> haze during the spacecraft\u2019s close approach on July 14, 2015. But, as researchers looked closer at the photo, a question emerged: Uh, what\u2019s with<em> <\/em>that weird glowing patch in the upper right hand corner?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/what-is-this-weird-glowing-spot-hovering-over-pluto-1780146215\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/what-is-this-weird-glowing-spot-hovering-...1780146215<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it aliens? Sure sounds like aliens\u2014but these strange, glowing patches over Pluto are actually something else (almost) as mysterious. NASA\u2019s New Horizons snapped this photo of sunlight streaming through Pluto\u2019s haze haze during the spacecraft\u2019s close approach on July 14, 2015. But, as researchers looked closer at the photo, a question emerged: Uh, what\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56126,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413\/revisions\/56126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}