{"id":230708,"date":"2015-06-23T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-s-chandra-captures-x-ray-echoes-pinpointing-distant-neutron-star"},"modified":"2015-06-23T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:07:00","slug":"nasas-chandra-captures-x-ray-echoes-pinpointing-distant-neutron-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=230708","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Chandra Captures X-Ray Echoes Pinpointing Distant Neutron Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the largest and brightest set of rings from X-ray light echoes ever observed. These extraordinary rings, produced by an intense flare from a neutron star, provide astronomers a rare chance to determine how far across the Milky Way galaxy the star is from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the largest and brightest set of rings from X-ray light echoes ever observed. These extraordinary rings, produced by an intense flare from a neutron star, provide astronomers a rare chance to determine how far across the Milky Way galaxy the star is from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230711,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230708\/revisions\/230711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}