{"id":84991,"date":"2018-11-21T22:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/what-do-sand-glass-%e2%8c%9b-and-this-technicolor-remnant-of-a-supernova-%f0%9f%92%a5-have-in-common"},"modified":"2018-11-21T22:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:42:32","slug":"what-do-sand-glass-%e2%8c%9b-and-this-technicolor-remnant-of-a-supernova-%f0%9f%92%a5-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/what-do-sand-glass-%e2%8c%9b-and-this-technicolor-remnant-of-a-supernova-%f0%9f%92%a5-have-in-common","title":{"rendered":"What do sand, glass \u231b and this technicolor remnant of a supernova \ud83d\udca5 have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-do-sand-glass-e28c9b-and-this-technicolor-remnant-of-a-supernova-f09f92a5-have-in-common2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They all contain silica, a mineral that\u2019s widespread on Earth and in space.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nasaspitzer\/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARCC2dBobTNhvBcXWmMaqL22PJ20qOAnHo1unGP6PaWTrKFHb1i_QWO9FAmwAHH21clJ7elYaPfQ2f6g&fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCT2IH4c8vGc16KIWwIIsYbh9qdhEYOBt_TfaPAbWEgDqQOw3eVJDxwYBqh8fGzfZL6ITfc8n6VieEJ7LKC8Iv8Wc_5LcZjNRRLnrFVwoT1b2a1i91rTMvNOhsTVGOVRgr8B4BEDdsisFi3FaK3db68CaICqJT5po5xVMKJIQuKb1CsNAUMJZum0N3FoWIkzQXyZddXJKIWF78hlQh748ZHwVCXgEnIt1o7i0GxbnpxcOY1WBv1clWbCnUntk_bZbZwQGtQoPi6_1l_m4CBilBfjh0myCjgA1X04YGM2G6PZrI8HD3TqQLLUmimtBn2cO8WuvGGWZ46CEMsEw\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=117824668230022&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARCC2dBobTNhvBcXWmMaqL22PJ20qOAnHo1unGP6PaWTrKFHb1i_QWO9FAmwAHH21clJ7elYaPfQ2f6g%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope<\/a>, researchers found that the material is produced by the massive explosions of stars. Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.nasa.gov%2F2r6Zq7P%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR27r0ElTecvfx_1qHWobqa22pyAABtW0N5HaQi7Vj0gF_zhy-klR-wLO6k&h=AT2OJvztCntG2NKJcQ8KuVd4xW2_3adtraIxiNbjR4qFJ0Yrl_PZefkiLJZyNw6ojmarZA4_jmZ7FIrbNCvaEjvbOkXOf9D5yRlfvSM9bXUal8xR17p-bjOzHDSW9hJaqdMIaFdyloA5e2LYNq6tyliX1cvPT96psmpPkEEzDWofzRaGoPw62iGmwA0BDwTbs5tivQ3LIfzKGZ6wGimwNFjKMANM-D0djYIDEll9_BWXPeSTwTJFCdHBqKCP4_dsFGv3-4cByBNp36Y8-J7q_UnNgxud1migwWUvIaDE5gVWgVLxK2KSlVhj0UDPQUGbheNaY-o6bkfpLdmGgTgkWexQiA-yUa2ADx_iD3Z_Obfq8hwLYTqs5VG1fvgcfjOCcpTaDL5YEldntn81yy7sxm0kGqkzMDcPyrCm5v0bk47X2O6RDExdQoLP2DitzsNuEaPl0LBIUvW-7QinohfabgKBS2enVrC9SoJcm-yw-X_wk9L3ZRp85dMSIxw2tlBqx4YAf8ScxWBe6MVMQw2XpJmJgveDRojC1tFOD6mqHGC1GSlEjRHXbcvagfpCdGsXc-qVv8A-B2eZSBYo1tFKmzUNc4CDFpQ4Go0M_4_KOmUTV1M2iGPUs1D5_kao2oYjkW2nGA\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2r6Zq7P\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2r6Zq7P<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156718086101772\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156718086101772<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They all contain silica, a mineral that\u2019s widespread on Earth and in space. Using NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers found that the material is produced by the massive explosions of stars. Details: https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2r6Zq7P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84991","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}