{"id":82764,"date":"2018-09-17T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T04:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/where-are-we-in-space-astronomers-update-their-celestial-frame-of-reference"},"modified":"2018-09-17T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T04:02:41","slug":"where-are-we-in-space-astronomers-update-their-celestial-frame-of-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/where-are-we-in-space-astronomers-update-their-celestial-frame-of-reference","title":{"rendered":"Where Are We in Space? Astronomers Update Their Celestial Frame of Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/where-are-we-in-space-astronomers-update-their-celestial-frame-of-reference.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you know where anything is in space? Sure, you can say, \u201cOh, that star, it\u2019s the one in the middle of the Big Dipper,\u201d but that\u2019s not very useful in an era of incredible telescopes peeping at galaxies billions of light-years away. On January 1, 2019, scientists will adopt the newest, internationally standardized frame of reference to help locate things in space.<\/p>\n<p>The third edition of the International Celestial Reference Frame, or ICRF-3, is the most up-to-date version of the International Astronomy Union\u2019s standardized reference frame. Imagine the universe as a graph from geometry\u2014scientists need a place to put the origin and axes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/where-are-we-in-space-astronomers-update-their-celesti-1829071105\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/where-are-we-in-space-astronomers-update...1829071105<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you know where anything is in space? Sure, you can say, \u201cOh, that star, it\u2019s the one in the middle of the Big Dipper,\u201d but that\u2019s not very useful in an era of incredible telescopes peeping at galaxies billions of light-years away. On January 1, 2019, scientists will adopt the newest, internationally standardized [\u2026]<\/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-82764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82764","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=82764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}