{"id":16098,"date":"2011-04-05T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=16098"},"modified":"2011-04-05T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:04:14","slug":"our-strange-sky-the-milky-way-band-at-tenerife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/our-strange-sky-the-milky-way-band-at-tenerife\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Strange Sky: The Milky Way Band at Tenerife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110405.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/teidesky_casado_3000-e1302029998580.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Milky Way Over Tenerife by Juan Carlos Casado \" width=\"600\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16099\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light is visible across the sky. This band is the disk of our spiral galaxy. Since we are inside this disk, the band appears to encircle the Earth. The<a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110405.html\" class=\"external external_icon\"> above spectacular picture of the Milky Way arch<\/a>, however, goes where the unaided eye cannot. The image is actually a deep digital fusion of nine photos that create a panorama fully 360 across. Taken recently in Teide National Park in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, the image includes the Teide volcano, visible near the image center, behind a volcanic landscape that includes many large rocks.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The deep exposure also brings out many sky wonders normally beyond human perception<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>APOD has annotated the constellations over on their site. Why not <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110405.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">have a look<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light is visible across the sky. This band is the disk of our spiral galaxy. Since we are inside this disk, the band appears to encircle the Earth. The above spectacular picture of the Milky Way arch, however, goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,81],"tags":[360,4141,4142,1637,1944,4140,330],"class_list":["post-16098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-space","tag-earth","tag-juan-carlos-casado","tag-lets-go-to-space","tag-our-strange-sky","tag-space-bastard","tag-the-milky-way","tag-things-made-from-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16103,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions\/16103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}