{"id":86332,"date":"2019-01-02T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/second-scientific-balloon-launches-from-antarctica"},"modified":"2019-01-02T07:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:02:51","slug":"second-scientific-balloon-launches-from-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/second-scientific-balloon-launches-from-antarctica","title":{"rendered":"Second scientific balloon launches from Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/second-scientific-balloon-launches-from-antarctica.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington University in St. Louis announced that its X-Calibur instrument, a telescope that measures the polarization of X-rays arriving from distant neutron stars, black holes and other exotic celestial bodies, launched today from McMurdo Station, Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-01-scientific-balloon-antarctica.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;01-scientific-balloon-antarctica.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington University in St. Louis announced that its X-Calibur instrument, a telescope that measures the polarization of X-rays arriving from distant neutron stars, black holes and other exotic celestial bodies, launched today from McMurdo Station, Antarctica.<\/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-86332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86332","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=86332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}