{"id":3085,"date":"2009-09-28T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/09\/28\/the-universe-is-on-fire-could-have-sworn-id-posted-this-already\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:52:00","slug":"the-universe-is-on-fire-could-have-sworn-id-posted-this-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/09\/28\/the-universe-is-on-fire-could-have-sworn-id-posted-this-already\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Is On Fire (could have sworn I&#8217;d posted this already)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>via the ever delightful <a href=\"http:\/\/benpeek.livejournal.com\/738413.html\">Ben Peek<\/a>, who delightfully came up in conversation recently as &#8220;the person farthest away from here to say Hello To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.that1guy.com\">That Mike<\/a> for me&#8221;:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Scitech\/090909_nasa1_slideshow_604x500.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly, but it&#8217;s far from serene: what resemble the dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour &#8212; fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/slideshow\/scitech\/2009\/09\/09\/spectacular-new-images-hubble-telescope?slide=1\">Link<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via the ever delightful Ben Peek, who delightfully came up in conversation recently as &#8220;the person farthest away from here to say Hello To That Mike for me&#8221;: &#8220;This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly, but it&#8217;s far from serene: what resemble the dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/09\/28\/the-universe-is-on-fire-could-have-sworn-id-posted-this-already\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Universe Is On Fire (could have sworn I&#8217;d posted this already)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1265,196],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astronomy","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}