{"id":86139,"date":"2018-12-27T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/nasa-wants-you-to-celebrate-new-years-with-its-new-horizons-space-probe"},"modified":"2018-12-27T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:42:20","slug":"nasa-wants-you-to-celebrate-new-years-with-its-new-horizons-space-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/nasa-wants-you-to-celebrate-new-years-with-its-new-horizons-space-probe","title":{"rendered":"NASA wants you to celebrate New Years with its New Horizons space probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-wants-you-to-celebrate-new-years-with-its-new-horizons-space-probe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft has been speeding through space since early 2006 and it\u2019s about to make what might be its most interesting flyby to date. After speeding past Jupiter and Pluto in the 12 years since its launch, the probe is about to have <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/12\/24\/new-horizons-flyby-ultima-thule-space\/\">a very close encounter<\/a> with a mysterious object in the outer Solar System called Ultima Thule. As luck would have it, it\u2019s going to meet its target on New Year\u2019s Day, and it\u2019s a pretty big deal for NASA.<\/p>\n<p>As we approach the probe\u2019s arrival at Ultima Thule, NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/News-Center\/Where-to-Watch.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">is announcing<\/a> its schedule of events related to the probe\u2019s flyby. The big show will begin on the afternoon of Monday, December 31st, and it\u2019ll kick off three days of news and briefings that will give us our best look yet at an extremely distant Solar System object.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/12\/26\/new-horizons-date-new-years-ultima-thule-stream\/\">https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/12\/26\/new-horizons-date-new-years-ultima-thule-stream\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft has been speeding through space since early 2006 and it\u2019s about to make what might be its most interesting flyby to date. After speeding past Jupiter and Pluto in the 12 years since its launch, the probe is about to have a very close encounter with a mysterious object in 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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86139","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=86139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}