{"id":80510,"date":"2018-07-10T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-end-of-the-old-solar-system-the-beginning-of-the-new"},"modified":"2018-07-10T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T07:02:32","slug":"the-end-of-the-old-solar-system-the-beginning-of-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-end-of-the-old-solar-system-the-beginning-of-the-new","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Old Solar System, the Beginning of the New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-end-of-the-old-solar-system-the-beginning-of-the-new2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today marks not one but two milestones in planetary exploration. It is the 25th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?release=2014-288\">anniversary<\/a> of Voyager 2\u2019s flight past Neptune, the most distant planet ever seen up close. It is also the exact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?release=2014-287\">day<\/a> that the New Horizons spacecraft is crossing Neptune\u2019s orbit on its way to Pluto, the mysterious world that marks the boundary between the solar system we know and the one we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/outthere\/2014\/08\/25\/end-old-solar-system-beginning-new\/#.W0RU-fZFzic\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/outthere\/2014\/08\/25\/end-ol...0RU-fZFzic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks not one but two milestones in planetary exploration. It is the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2\u2019s flight past Neptune, the most distant planet ever seen up close. It is also the exact day that the New Horizons spacecraft is crossing Neptune\u2019s orbit on its way to Pluto, the mysterious world that marks the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80510","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=80510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}