{"id":81651,"date":"2018-08-11T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T03:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/heavens-to-shine-with-new-star-as-first-space-sculpture-prepares-for-launch"},"modified":"2018-08-11T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T03:03:26","slug":"heavens-to-shine-with-new-star-as-first-space-sculpture-prepares-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/heavens-to-shine-with-new-star-as-first-space-sculpture-prepares-for-launch","title":{"rendered":"Heavens to shine with new \u2018star\u2019 as first space sculpture prepares for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heavens-to-shine-with-new-star-as-first-space-sculpture-prepares-for-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look up into the night sky towards the end of October and you may catch sight of a brand new \u2018star\u2019 twinkling in the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny speck of light is not the offspring of a seething nebula, but the world\u2019s first space sculpture, which will orbit the Earth for three weeks this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>The length of a football field, and the shape of an elongated diamond, the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitalreflector.com\/\">Orbital Reflector<\/a>\u2019 artwork is the brainchild of US artist Trevor Paglen and will be launched on board on one of Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/spacex\/\">SpaceX<\/a> Falcon 9 rockets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/08\/11\/heavens-shine-new-star-first-space-sculpture-prepares-launch\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/08\/11\/heavens-shine...es-launch\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look up into the night sky towards the end of October and you may catch sight of a brand new \u2018star\u2019 twinkling in the cosmos. The tiny speck of light is not the offspring of a seething nebula, but the world\u2019s first space sculpture, which will orbit the Earth for three weeks this autumn. 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":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81651","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=81651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}